[Discuss] FORTRAN -> ???

Richard Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Sun Jan 22 16:37:00 EST 2012


On 1/22/12 2:10 PM, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> f2c is really good, but the C code will look mechanically generated, and
> not be so easy to maintain itself.

You'll run into this with any machine translation.  It's the nature of 
the beast.  So, the question isn't so much "is there a FORTRAN to C 
translator?" as "is cleaning up a machine translation easier than 
porting by hand?"  That depends on the code (how much, how complex) and 
what is expected of the maintainer.

-- 
Rich P.



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