[TUHS] efl

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Sun Dec 19 17:54:10 AEST 2021


Steve,

Were you not aware of struct(1)?  It was in V7 and BSD. It would read
regular Fortran and turn it into ratfor.

I never used it, but I thought it was the coolest kind of thing.

Arnold

Steve Simon <steve at quintile.net> wrote:

> hi,
> 
> having supported Pafec and then in a different job flow3d, i was most
> interested in anything that could make large fortran packages more
> manageable.
> 
> there was a commercial package called Spag i which claimed to
> un-spagatti-ify your code which i always wanted but, could never afford.
> 
> the best i managed was sed and awk scripts to split huge fortran files
> into one file per function and build a makefile. this at least made
> rebuilds quicker.
> 
> i do not miss maintaining fortran code hacked by dozens of people over
> many decades.
> 
> -Steve
> 


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