Fortran-to-Ada translator

Fortran-to-Ada translator

[Michael Feldman]

 
While we are on the subject of language-to-language translators, does
anyone in net-land have any experience with this one?

Mike Feldman
 
 
               Ada Software Repository Master Index, July 5, 1989
 
 
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   LANGUAGE TRANSLATORS
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  Translate WWMCCS H6000 FORTRAN 66 to       ===============  ========  ======
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 ABSTRACT
  	FORTRAN_Ada is an automatic conversion tool for the conversion
  of FORTRAN source code files to Ada source code.  Conversion is done
  without human intervention.  FORTRAN_Ada converts a common dialect of
  WWMCCS H6000 FORTRAN 66 to Ada.
 
 

Re: Fortran-to-Ada translator

[Scott Carter]

re PD FORTRAN-to-Ada translator in Ada SR:

I'm not familiar with this particular product, but we have written an F77
to Ada translator which has been reasonably successful on some fairly
large programs (mostly simulators and software development tools).

We attempt to recast the FORTRAN into normal structured constructs (if
humanly possible :} ) and otherwise try to make the output human-readable
(e.g. separate packages for each named COMMON, etc.).  If the other product
does the same thing (correctly, at least 100-eps % of the time), I would
expect that that the output would be about as maintainable as most of the
Ada I see which seems to have been written by a human [Turing] translator.

Again, I can't vouch for the other product but at least there's an existence 
proof that it's doable.

Scott Carter - McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Company
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