[Lazarus] Project conversion Delphi -> FreePascal: success!

[Hans-Peter Diettrich]

Juha Manninen schrieb:

>     I converted a fair amount of them but when I reached this problem I
>     had a lot to go and gave up.....
> 
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> 
> Interesting. I don't know Fortran either but it looked like it could map 
> directly to Pascal.
> Apparently it does not.

Fortran uses COMMON blocks for data storage, and it's up to the coder to 
specify the *intended* structure of every such memory block, in every 
module. Typically the structure is different in different modules, in 
detail with matrices. This is quite the opposite of Pascal type-safe 
declarations - more something like variant records with arbitrary (maybe 
same) field names for every variation :-(

Fortran is different from almost every other programming language in 
many aspects, so that porting Fortran code to Pascal or even C is near 
impossible. Either get an Fortran compiler that can compile the code, or 
give up.

DoDi