[TUHS] > there is no way that FORTRAN can be described in any syntax

[Ron Young]

Your message dated: Sun, 02 Dec 2018 22:36:59 -0500
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> I did just that. The National Bureau of Standards picked it up
> in NBS Handbook 131, "Using ANS FORTRAN" (1980). It is expressed
> in the same formalism that Burroughs used for Algol.
> 
> Doug

  a couple of more data points:

  Arthur Sale wrote an article on classifying fortran statements,
  Volume 14 Number 1 of the Computer Journal that describes how to
  classify fortran statements into 1 of 36 types.

  URL:https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Arthur_Sale/publication/220459829_The_classification_of_FORTRAN_statements/links/02e7e5181a234c6545000000/The-classification-of-FORTRAN-statements.pdf).

  by using the above, you can do some preprocessing to correct spacing,
  line continuations, remove sequence numbers (cols 73-80) and other
  formatting to make parsing easier.
  
  John Levine wrote a ftn77 subset parser using lex and yacc (the shar
  file that I have is dated Nov 1988). 

  -ron
  
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