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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: fortran -> C
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 23:55:35 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 21 23:55:35 1987
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In article <2413@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> prove@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu
(Roger Ove) writes:
>... A few of the desired facilities are:
>1) Ability to replace nasty computed goto's, arithmetic goto's,
>   etc into something reasonable.  Some of the source is extremely
>   poorly written, and it would be nice is the translator could
>   at least make a start at untangling it.
>2) Ratfor, f77, and f66 input (some source is old).

If you find a translator that can read Ratfor source, you might
try using `struct' to translate the old ugly Fortran code into
Ratfor.  Struct is included with 4BSD; it was written at Bell Labs
by Brenda Baker.  (Where the documentation has gone I cannot guess;
there is a reference to a Bell Labs internal memorandum in the
Ratfor documentation.  Perhaps this was never published elsewhere,
although I find that hard to believe.)  Struct is not perfect---in
particular, the 4BSD version needs a thorough cleaning to make it
type-correct---but it really does improve those old dusty decks.
-- 
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