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From: "Samuel T. Harris" <samuel_t_harris@Raytheon.com>
Subject: Re: Where is the elusive jump command?
Date: 2000/04/14
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"Stanley R. Allen" wrote:
> 
> "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.
> 

I wasn't saying Fortran -> Ada was easier than Ada -> Fortran.
I was saying Fortran -> Ada was hard enough. Since Intermetrics
already does Ada -> C, then all you need is C -> Fortran to
complete the circuit. That does seem to be much easier to me
and Fortran -> Ada.

-- 
Samuel T. Harris, Principal Engineer
Raytheon, Aerospace Engineering Services
"If you can make it, We can fake it!"