Re: Converting fixed-to-free format

Ken Plotkin wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 18:07:42 GMT, Joe Krahn <jkrahn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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having to fix manually like REAL X(1). Then we could think about the future of Fortran without worrying so much about billions of lines of old code.


Those billions of lines of existing code *are* the future of Fortran.

Every step taken toward deliberate incompatibility is another nail in
the coffin.

Ken Plotkin

It sounds like you are saying Fortran is only alive now to keep all that archaic code useful. If that's all Fortran is to you, then it's already dead.

Besides, with a good archaic-to-modern Fortran converter, archaic humans can still write archaic code. My primary point is that there should be no need to worry about mixing archaic and modern code into the same source file, and an archaic-to-modern converter would keep all existing cond working indefinitely, without compiler develeopers having to deal with all the extra effort.

Joe
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