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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, steve@quintile.net
Subject: Re: [TUHS] efl
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:54:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202112190754.1BJ7sAMt028858@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2788C381-789B-4B66-8749-AB330D3D08C1@quintile.net>

Steve,

Were you not aware of struct(1)?  It was in V7 and BSD. It would read
regular Fortran and turn it into ratfor.

I never used it, but I thought it was the coolest kind of thing.

Arnold

Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> having supported Pafec and then in a different job flow3d, i was most
> interested in anything that could make large fortran packages more
> manageable.
> 
> there was a commercial package called Spag i which claimed to
> un-spagatti-ify your code which i always wanted but, could never afford.
> 
> the best i managed was sed and awk scripts to split huge fortran files
> into one file per function and build a makefile. this at least made
> rebuilds quicker.
> 
> i do not miss maintaining fortran code hacked by dozens of people over
> many decades.
> 
> -Steve
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-19  7:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-18  8:11 Steve Simon
2021-12-19  7:54 ` arnold [this message]
2021-12-19  8:08   ` Bakul Shah

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