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From: gurr@west44.UUCP (Dave Gurr)
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Subject: Re: Why FORTRAN
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Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 13:01:56 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 26 13:01:56 1984
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< force of habit .. >

>	In the meantime, a good preprocessor for FORTRAN 77 may be the
>	best thing for scientific programmers to use.

Try 'ratfor' (no, dummy, it means RATional FORtran, not fortran for rats!).
Most of you will have heard of Kernighan and Plauger's book 'Software Tools',
in which RATFOR is described and used. We have a PR1ME 750 here at Westfield
which is running Georgia Tech's wonderful (but soon to disappear - sob!)
Software Tools sub-system. This is written entirely in RATFOR.

RATFOR works. It looks like C. It generates FORTRAN. What more do you want?

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	Dave Gurr, Westfield College, Univ. of London, England.