[TUHS] {TUHS} efl

Douglas McIlroy douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Mon Dec 20 00:37:12 AEST 2021


> there was a commercial package called Spag i which claimed to un-spagatti-ify your code which i always wanted but, could never afford.

You needed struct(1) in v7. It did precisely that, converting Fortran
to Ratfor. Amazingly (to me, anyway) it embodied a theorem: a Fortran
program has a canonical form. People found the converted code to be
easier to understand--even when they had written the original code
themselves.

Doug


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