mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) (02/16/91)
While we are on the subject of language-to-language translators, does
anyone in net-land have any experience with this one?
Mike Feldman
Ada Software Repository Master Index, July 5, 1989
PROGRAMMING TOOLS
LANGUAGE TRANSLATORS
FORTRAN TO ADA
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UNIT NAME Directory PD2:<ADA.TRANSLATORS>
FORTRAN_ADA File Name Bytes Lines
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Jeanne Robinette ATTSREQ.DOC 24172 375
Advanced Technology Systems ATTSREQ.INC 283 9
8027 Leesburg Pike F2ADA.COM 1359 49
Vienna, VA 22180 F2ADA.PRO 2558 55
703/827-0081 or 9519 F2ADA.VM 186186 631
Contact: Bob Knapper, IDA F2ADA1.INC 370 20
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ASR F2ADA5.SRC 365208 9562
ENVIRONMENT F2ADART.INC 236 12
VAX/VMS, DEC Ada F2ADART.SRC 597780 17312
DG MV10000, ROLM/DG AOS F2ADAVM.DOC 576 13
SEE ALSO F2AREAD.ME 4286 96
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SHORT DESCRIPTION F2ATEST.SRC 79488 2657
Translate WWMCCS H6000 FORTRAN 66 to =============== ======== ======
Ada 23 Files 4856880 127020
ABSTRACT
FORTRAN_Ada is an automatic conversion tool for the conversion
of FORTRAN source code files to Ada source code. Conversion is done
without human intervention. FORTRAN_Ada converts a common dialect of
WWMCCS H6000 FORTRAN 66 to Ada.
carters@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (Scott Carter) (02/20/91)
re PD FORTRAN-to-Ada translator in Ada SR: I'm not familiar with this particular product, but we have written an F77 to Ada translator which has been reasonably successful on some fairly large programs (mostly simulators and software development tools). We attempt to recast the FORTRAN into normal structured constructs (if humanly possible :} ) and otherwise try to make the output human-readable (e.g. separate packages for each named COMMON, etc.). If the other product does the same thing (correctly, at least 100-eps % of the time), I would expect that that the output would be about as maintainable as most of the Ada I see which seems to have been written by a human [Turing] translator. Again, I can't vouch for the other product but at least there's an existence proof that it's doable. Scott Carter - McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems Company carter%csvax.decnet@mdcgwy.mdc.com (preferred and faster) - or - carters@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu (714)-896-3097 The opinions expressed herein are solely those of the author, and are not necessarily those of McDonnell Douglas.