Re: Fortran-to-Ada translator

[carters@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (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.

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