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From: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Make - What is Efl?
Message-ID: <332@hadron.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 01:29:54 EST
Article-I.D.: hadron.332
Posted: Tue Mar 25 01:29:54 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 29-Mar-86 01:16:55 EST
References: <121@graffiti.UUCP> <745@jplgodo.UUCP>
Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao)
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Summary: Not a pre-processor.

In article <745@jplgodo.UUCP> steve@jplgodo.UUCP (Steve Schlaifer x3171 156/224) writes:
>In article <121@graffiti.UUCP>, bruce@graffiti.UUCP writes:
>> What is 'Efl'.
>EFL is a pre-processor for Fortran and stands for Extended Fortran Language.
>It is a descendant of Ratfor.  It is described in a paper by Stuart I. Feldman

Actually, EFL differs from Ratfor in that it is  n o t  a pre-
processor:  although it can produce Fortran (I think), it is a
full compiler in and of itself.  I am not entirely sure that
Ratfor is really an ancestor, but the article is not before me.
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	Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}