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From: "Stanley R. Allen" <Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/04/12
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Robert A Duff wrote:
> 
> "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
> 
> > It should be  possible to do the same for an fortran to Ada translator.
> 
> But it's easier to translate a higher-level language into a lower-level
> language, than the other way around.

Not necessarily.  Fortran->Ada is probably simpler than Ada->Fortran.

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