JOE@oregon.uoregon.edu (Joe St Sauver) (02/17/90)
For those of you who haven't had a chance to try the CMU/Bellcore/Bell Labs f2c (Fortran to C) converter mentioned in an earlier message in this group, you're really missing out. It performs VERY nicely. I fed it some grungy old Fortran (specifically, a factory layout code called CRAFT dating from the 1960's, but still more or less the state-of-the-art for the algorithm employed) and the resulting C ran slick as anything without requiring ANY human touchup. (CPU times were about 2.7-2.8 times what they were when run on a VAX 8800, but hey, I can live with those kind of speeds!) Truly, if you have a lot of old Fortran code sitting around, can't afford the Absoft compiler for a NeXT, and don't need the Object Oriented routines the Absoft product provides, f2c is a godsend. Thank you CMU, Bellcore and Bell Labs! Joe St Sauver (JOE@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU or JOE@OREGON)