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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Fortran 77 to Ada
Date: 1999/11/22
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In article <8152h5$n7e$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
  Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> In article <18cf8f9c.09c1c234@usw-ex0108-062.remarq.com>,
>   Chris <caux@apside.fr> wrote:
> > Do you know any tools able to translate automatically
> > (almost) a Fortran software program (F77 type)into an Ada83
> > software program ?

> in normal cases there are two possibilities:
>
> a) the code is high quality and works fine, in this case why
> on earth translate it.
>
> b) the code is in bad shape and need reengineering. In this

How about
 c) Some Fortran code running on machine A needs to communicate with
some Ada code runnning on machine B. Fortran code A has a single source
file that specifies the data structures used in the interface. It would
be nice to be able generate the Ada interface data structure code
automagicly from the Fortran interface data structure code whenever the
latter changes.

I once had to write a special-purpose Fortran to C translator for the
above reason.

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T.E.D.


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