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From: Gautier <gautier.demontmollin@maths.unine.ch>
Subject: Re: Fortran 77 to Ada
Date: 1999/11/22
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> It would be interesting to know why anyone would want to do
> such a pointless thing.
(bla bla)

You just forget a third possibility:

c) the code is high quality and works fine, but one wants to
extend its features.

An example from here: there was a finite element code, but
for one type of element, in a fixed dimension, with a certain
type of filling matrices, a floating-point precision one has
to change from machine to machine, only one equation, etc.

In such a case, it is *very* valuable to use f2a.pl, program
happily, minimize debugging and concentrate on algorithms.

So, please do constructive answers when you don't know the
contents of the subject. Typically you decide it is pointless
before trying to know what shape the Fortran code has.

-- 
Gautier

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