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From: trh@eagle.ukc.ac.uk (T.R.Hopkins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Forced variable declaration
Message-ID: <4267@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Jan 88 10:04:30 GMT
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Reply-To: trh@ukc.ac.uk (T.R.Hopkins)
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There are programs in the public domain which accept Fortran 77 source
generated by lazy programmers who can't be bothered to type their
variables and don't indent their code and who use random number
generators to produce their labels and ..... and produce nicely laid
out code with all variables typed etc.. One of these tools will also
check all subprogram interfaces and perform a standard conformance
check.

It's called Toolpack, we have it on Vaxes running VMS and 4.3bsd Unix
and on Suns, and it's found loads of errors in programs whose
authors are too lazy to type ... 

Tim