[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Michael Moroney]

VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:

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

>>>>(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.

That description is more like the _current_ code.  *Anything* would be
better.

Well, almost anything.  There was one set of modules that were too
convoluted to get working under the Itanic macro compiler, that one of us
(not me) finally rewrote in C.  But it was rewritten almost line-by-line,
bug-compatible from Macro to C, because that's what the pointy-haired
manager wanted. It was the most hideous C code ever.