Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site west44.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!vaxine!wjh12!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ukc!west44!gurr From: gurr@west44.UUCP (Dave Gurr) Newsgroups: net.lang,net.physics Subject: Re: Why FORTRAN Message-ID: <247@west44.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Jun-84 13:01:56 EDT Article-I.D.: west44.247 Posted: Tue Jun 26 13:01:56 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 01:28:01 EDT References: <2735@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: CS Dept., Westfield College, London Lines: 21 < 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? mcvax "You can't clean the \ toilet Neil, real students ukc!west44!gurr don't do that!" / vax135 Dave Gurr, Westfield College, Univ. of London, England.