Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators

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From: Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93
Subject: Re: looking for FORTRAN to Ada translators
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"Jacob S. Andersen" <sparre+@PITT.EDU> writes:
>
>David K. Leucht (DLEUCHT@ccmail.gsfc.nasa.gov) is looking for a FORTRAN (is
>it all capital letters?) to Ada compiler.
>
Just a guess, but since it is derived from "Formula Translation"
it should probably be spelled ForTran. But since it was also
invented back in the days of half-ascii and upper-case only line
printers, it's history has been FORTRAN.

As for ForTran to Ada translators, I asked this question a while
ago. I got some very kind responses from several people, but I
found two problems: 1) No major "commercial" products and 2)
Nobody claiming it would do the whole job automatically, or even
very well. (You get AdaTran at best) Someone (forget who, but
maybe he'll respond again) has rights to some translator that
came from General Electric (The lightbulb guys who *didn't* get
the ATF engine - not that I'm gloating or anything like that ;-)
I recall he was looking for an opportunity to take it commercial,
so there might be some hope of getting a supported product.

If you hear of anything - I still have the potential issue, so
keep me on the posts.

Pax,
Marin

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