[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Michael Moroney]

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:

>Michael Moroney wrote:
>>>> (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.

>It sounds as if the code could be rewritten prettier in any language.

Ding!

>If it is OS close then C may be a decent choice.

>If it is more of a regular application there are even higher
>level languages - Pascal, Ada, PL/I etc..

It's a regular application, and could be rewritten well in almost any
language with reasonable string processing and C-like structures.  It's 
closer to the OS than it needs to be.