mgarrett@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Toni) (09/18/89)
Can anyone direct me to source code for a FORTRAN preprocessor? RATFOR and EFL are probably the best known, but if you have another favorite, I would be happy to hear about it. Public domain code in FORTRAN would be most useful. Code in RATFOR or EFL is also OK, and code in C would be better than nothing. Information about commercially distributed products is also welcome. Addison-Wesley used to distribute code from "Software Tools" by Kernigan and Plauger on tape, including RATFOR. The book is still in print, but the tape is no longer available from the publisher. I imagine this code must be essentially public domain by now. Does anyone know where it can be found? Code for RATFOR in C was posted to comp.sources sometime in early 1988. For portability reasons, this would be less desirable than FORTRAN code, but any pointers to its current whereabouts would also be welcome. Thanks in advance, Warren Jones UUCP: c/o uvicctr!mgarrett PAMAP Graphics Ltd #301 - 3440 Douglas St. Victoria, B.C. V8Z 3L5 Canada
seymour@blake.acs.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) (09/19/89)
In article <785@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> mgarrett@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Toni) writes: >Can anyone direct me to source code for a FORTRAN preprocessor? look into the previous years' DECUS tapes -- both the VAX/VMS SIG and the Languages and Tools SIG -- they often have entire languages as well as repeated (updated and maintained) copies of RATFOR and Friends (such as Flecs). There is an active Vancouver BC DECUS group, and you could try at TRIUMF at UBC. (the original poster was in Victoria BC). You could even visit us in Seattle and drag some home (or hope that i'll remember to tuck a tape under my arm when i float north) -- dick seymour@uwaphast.bitnet
mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) (09/19/89)
In article <785@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> mgarrett@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Toni) writes: >Can anyone direct me to source code for a FORTRAN preprocessor? >RATFOR and EFL are probably the best known, but if you have >another favorite, I would be happy to hear about it. I tried to reply with the following but keep getting a mailer-daemon return: <<< 550 <mgarrett@uvicctr.uvic.ca.uucp>... User unknown What about SPARKS, originally distributed with Horowitz & Sahni's "Fundamentals of Data Structures"? I had a couple of graduate students rewrite the SPARKS preprocessor in SPARKS and then add even more features, so we had meta-SPARKS processors coming out our ears (the original, SPARKS in SPARKS, ADVANCED SPARKS in SPARKS, and ADVANCED SPARKS in ADVANCED SPARKS). For awhile, we were H. & S.'s official distributors of their own product! But I don't know why you'd want a preprocessor for FORTRAN 77. SPARKS was written back in the days when FORTRAN 66 didn't have any block structure; now that FORTRAN 77 does, preprocessors seem kind of unnecessary. --Myron -- Myron A. Calhoun, PhD EE, W0PBV, (913) 532-6350 (work), 539-4448 (home). INTERNET: mac@ksuvax1.cis.ksu.edu BITNET: mac@ksuvax1.bitnet UUCP: ...{rutgers, texbell}!ksuvax1!harry!mac
userAKDU@ualtamts.BITNET (Al Dunbar) (09/20/89)
In article <3569@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) writes: >In article <785@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP> mgarrett@uvicctr.UVic.ca.UUCP (Toni) writes: >>Can anyone direct me to source code for a FORTRAN preprocessor? --- text deleted --- > >But I don't know why you'd want a preprocessor for FORTRAN 77. The Radio Astrophysical Laboratory (Penticton, British Columbia, CANADA) uses a home-grown f77 preprocessor. In addition to providing such obvious extensions as ENDDO, it provides elements of object oriented programming, something like modules, and allows (forces?) you to avoid numbered statements and common blocks. It also helps them enforce programming and documentation standards on contract staff (summer students). They claim that they get more productivity from these people because of its use, and that the code developed is very easy for others to maintain afterward. -------------------+------------------------------------------- Alastair Dunbar | Edmonton: a great place, but... Edmonton, Alberta | before Gretzky trade: "City of Champions" CANADA | after Gretzky trade: "City of Champignons" -------------------+-------------------------------------------
bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) (09/20/89)
In article <3569@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> mac@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Myron A. Calhoun) writes: |[...] |But I don't know why you'd want a preprocessor for FORTRAN 77. |SPARKS was written back in the days when FORTRAN 66 didn't have |any block structure; now that FORTRAN 77 does, preprocessors |seem kind of unnecessary. I once went to the trouble of rewriting RATFOR on the IBM mainframe specifically to make it output FORTRAN 77 as object language. The reason was to take advantage of the much nicer syntax of RATFOR, and to provide a language environment which was closer to C in form, so that eventual migration would be comparatively painless. -- __ Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \cc/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/,/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _/ >_ Why would I dog you out? - G. Clinton