Re: neos Universal Compiler and FORTRAN IV

On 29/03/2025 15:47, Mr Flibble wrote:

On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 10:11:13 +0000, Richard Heathfield wrote:
 

On 29/03/2025 09:51, Mikko wrote:

On 2025-03-28 14:14:10 +0000, Mr Flibble said:
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If a native FORTRAN IV compiler can parse it then neos can parse it as
long as it is somehow expressable in the neos attribute grammar.

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If you don't know how to express it in the neos attribute grammar then
nobody knows and neos is not universal, at lieast in the practical
sense.

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You don't understand, Mikko. You probably think that "neos can parse it"
means that neos can parse it. What it really means is that /in Mr
Flibble's head/ neos can parse it, and anything in Mr Flibble's head is
right by definition, and /therefore/ neos can parse FORTRAN IV even if
it can't.

 I see no reason why neos can't parse FORTRAN IV, FACT.

What you can and can't see is neither here nor there. The FACT remains that neos /can't/ parse FORTRAN IV until the relevant schema has been written. To date (at least as far as we know) nobody has obliged.
I don't expect you to understand this; after all, you didn't understand it last time.
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