[Lazarus] Converting Fortran to FPC?

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Thu Oct 7 10:43:57 CEST 2010


Bo Berglund wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Oct 2010 02:19:34 +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd
> <markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk> wrote:

>> Yes, I believe there's a GNU FORTRAN but other than eyeballing it to see 
>> what sort of parallelisation facilities it provides I've not touched 
>> FORTRAN for around 30 years.
>>
> 
> The author is an academcian and he used Fortran for number crunching
> (there is tomography involved) because he was not comfortable with
> pascal and there were code examples available from universities he
> could use. So he got us to buy the Intel compiler to make the DLL:s.
> Then he left after a few years and noone else understands the code.
> 
> I started out in the 60:s with Algol at university, then used
> assembler in the 70:s, then pascal and C in the 80:s anmd finally
> object pascal from about 1995 util now (have used all Delphi versions
> until 7 and then BDS2006).
> Can't get my head around the fortran code....
> 
> The dll:s are each about 16-20 files varying between 70 to 400 lines
> of fortran source code.

I'd suggest determining the minimum FORTRAN version that he's coded for 
then seeing what pretty-printers, flow diagrammers etc are available for 
that version.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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