[Info-vax] pl/m compiler

[Bob Koehler]

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.

   The writers of f2c claim that it makes unreadable code, not meant to
   be maintaned.  They expect the original f77 code (not 90 or later
   when I looked at it) will be maintained, and f2c is just a step in 
   the compile process for folks who have a C compiler but not a 
   Fortran compiler.