From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ae963a8252893fb2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-11-01 04:53:05 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uunet!world!srctran From: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Subject: Re: Fortran To ADA In-Reply-To: paul@gta.com's message of 31 Oct 1994 04:43:24 GMT Message-ID: Sender: srctran@world.std.com (Gregory Aharonian) Organization: The World References: Date: Tue, 1 Nov 1994 12:50:25 GMT Date: 1994-11-01T12:50:25+00:00 List-Id: >I don't normally read this group but I have an ADA question. Someone in my >organization has inquired about a tool to convert Fortran to ADA. Does such >a tool(s) exist? Any pointers would be most helpful. Such tools offer little cost benefit over translating the code by hand (along with a good EMACS-like editor) because of the idiosyncracies of Fortran (like tricks played with COMMON blocks, lack of builtin Complex math system, and Fortran's freedom to pass any part of an array to a subroutine). The Fortran-to-Ada tool found in the repositories and CDROMs, that tool that came out of the WWMCCS Ada tool effort, was released to the public because it was worthless. Greg Aharonian