[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Michael Moroney wrote:
> 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.

The trouble with good intentions is that the bosses don't want it done 
right, they want done it right now!