[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Michael Moroney]

VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:

>Well, see my last post.  If you want, replace .PRINT with .ERROR.  That
>will give you a "pause" so you can to examine the code. :)

>If I can intercept Itanium instruction streams and revector control,
>I don't see what could be all that outlandish in your Macro that's so
>difficult to port.

It's not the _difficulty_ of porting, it's the _sheer volume_ of changes
necessary.  We're talking hundreds of modules each with hundreds of
lines of stinking, rotten code, maybe a quarter million total.
It can get very mind-numbing.

>>(oh how I wish we could simply start over in another language. Pointy-
>>haired managers dictate otherwise)

>What?  Like C?  Try writing a parser to find all the zany things people
>do with that hieroglyphic and you'll be pining for that Macro you have 
>now.

If _we're_ writing the C (or whatever), our code will be _much_ cleaner
overall.  I may be crazy, but not _that_ crazy.