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From: w-colinp@microsoft.UUCP (Colin Plumb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Fortran compiler
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Date: 24 Mar 89 13:00:30 GMT
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Reply-To: w-colinp@microsoft.uucp (Colin Plumb)
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phd_ivo@gsbacd.uchicago.edu wrote:
> I didn't even know of the existence of a gnu fortran project. Are you
> sure that there is one?

The compiler is supposed to be able to take multiple front ends, although
I'd expect some need for tweaking the first few times.  Fortran, Pascal,
Modula-2, Algol 60, Algol 68, and a bunch of other language parsers are
on the FSF's wish list, but I don't know if there's any active work
going on.

If someone has the time (or a grad student :-}), a Fortran front end
would be a worthwhile project.
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	-Colin (uunet!microsoft!w-colinp)

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