[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

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In article <hdsrvc$9ag$1 at pcls6.std.com>, moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) writes:
>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.

Well, if you need help clearing the air from that stinking, rotten code,
I'm always looking for something to do. ;)


>>>(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.

In your opinion.  I've seen C coded projects scarier than waking up naked,
after a night of bar-hopping, in a bed with Nancy Pelosi by your side and
as unprofessionally executed as an Ed Wood film coupled with documentation
as informative as graffiti tags along a railroad siding.

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