Re: The joy of FORTRAN

On Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:01:16 +0000, Dan Cross wrote:

In article <llgrccFmmqaU9@mid.individual.net>,
Bob Eager  <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:12:30 +0000, Dan Cross wrote:
>

In article <llfsmdFmmqaU8@mid.individual.net>,
Bob Eager  <news0009@eager.cx> wrote:

I can't remember who originally wrote it, but I came across a version
of 'ed' (the standard UNIX editor, none of this visual stuff) written
in FORTRAN.

 
The first "Software Tools" book by Kernighan and Plauger was written
using "ratfor" as the example language; `ratfor` is a "rational
FORTRAN"
frontend that took a semi-structured language as input and emitted
properly-formed FORTRAN code as output.
 
They implemeneted an ed-like editor in ratfor for Software Tools.  It
wouldn't surprise me if the editor you saw was that, or something
derived from it.

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No, it wasn't really. I implemented the ratfor one (and all the other
tools), but the FORTRAN one I'm talking about looks pretty different.
>
I still have all the files for the software tools in ratfor publihed by
Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.

 
Huh; curious. I wonder who did it, then.

Pretty sure it was a colleague. But I can't remember which one.


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