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From: shapiro@rb-dc1.UUCP (Mike Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: DO loops, anyone?
Message-ID: <417@rb-dc1.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 89 16:42:11 GMT
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Reply-To: shapiro@rb-dc1.SanDiego.gould.UUCP (Michael Shapiro)
Organization: Gould/GSD, San Diego
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In article <1320@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu> charlie@mica.stat.washington.edu (Charlie Geyer) writes:
   ... much deleted ...
>Believe me.  I don't write FORTRAN by choice.  Lately I've taken to
>writing some of my FORTRAN in C (thereby incurring who knows what
>portability problems).  But you just can't ever get completely
>away from FORTRAN.  It's everywhere.

Have you tried the RATFOR preprocessor?  I haven't recently, but a few
years ago I developed several FORTRAN packages using it.  During the
Software Tools User Group heyday, I remember talking with people who
were using RATFOR to code software whose required delivery language
was FORTRAN -- including such things as word processing and financial
modeling.  I also built some quick prototypes, including a CP/M
graphics and music language for the NCR Decision Mate V personal
computer (How many people remember it and the Dom Deluise TV ads?)
using RATFOR's C-like macro capability.
-- 

Michael Shapiro, Gould/General Systems Division
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