[Info-vax] pl/m compiler

[Scott Dorsey]

Bob Koehler <koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org> wrote:
>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.

Correct.  And, this was a reasonable approach to take before there was
gfortran.

The problem is, though, that it does not always produce correct C code, and
when this is the case, it becomes very very difficult to fix the code by hand.

But today, we have gfortran.
--scott

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