[Info-vax] pl/m compiler

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <ldao4s$b68$1 at panix2.panix.com>,
	kludge at panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes:
> Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
>>In article <blpedcF74unU1 at mid.individual.net>, bill at server2.cs.scranton.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
>>> 
>>> Which, by the way, is a trivial task as "f2C' has been around for years.
>>
>>   f2c is very UNIX-centric.  I ported a copy to VMS once and that was
>>   a major pain.
> 
> It's also flaky garbage that makes code that is hardly human-readable and
> often requires a lot of cleanup work.

It's not intended to be human readable.  It's intended to be C compiler
readable and that has always worked for me.

> 
> Thank God g77 (which was really f2c pasted onto gcc) and all that have gone 
> away and we have a proper fortran compiler available from gnu now.

What made you think they went away?  f2c and f77 (not g77 as that was
the original GNU Fortran 77 compiler.  or at least that's what their
web page says.) are still readaly available.

And I'll bet porting that compiler to VMS is a lot tougher than porting
f2c which is really nothing but a text processing program. :-)

bill

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