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From: "Stanley R. Allen" <Stanley_R_Allen-NR@raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/04/13
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"Samuel T. Harris" wrote:
> 
> "Stanley R. Allen" wrote:
> >
> >
> > Not necessarily.  Fortran->Ada is probably simpler than Ada->Fortran.
> >
> 
> Well, having done this myself I have to say that Fortran -> Ada
> (at least Fortran 77 to Ada 83) was a substantial undertaking :)
> 

How much more substantial would it be to convert to Fortran an Ada
program with tasking, dynamic memory allocation, exception handling,
functions returning unconstrained arrays ...  and that's just Ada 83.

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Stanley Allen
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