From: janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com   
      
   On 21.10.2025 04:21, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   > Janis Papanagnou  writes:   
   >> On 20.10.2025 20:36, rbowman wrote:   
   > [...]   
   >>> I have converted F77 code from NOAA's public domain stuff to C.   
   >>>   
   >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F2c   
   >>>   
   >>> The utility does indeed convert Fortran 77 to C code that will compile but   
   >>> it is barely human readable and nothing you would want to maintain.   
   >>   
   >> If the transformation is done correctly there's no reason to inspect   
   >> the details of the generated "C" code, or is it?   
   >   
   > Unless the goal is to continue maintenance of the code in C.   
   >   
   > A plausible scenario is that you have a body of code in Fortran that you   
   > want to continue maintaining, but it's easier to find C programmers than   
   > Fortran programmers.  (I don't know whether that's the case here.)   
      
   Well, I also cannot tell for the given case. (I see your scenario.)   
   In a one-shot transformation tasks one could pass the code through   
   a code-beautifier if necessary.   
      
   (I've written quite some code-generators the past decades. I always   
   tried to have the intermediate/resulting code be well structured   
   and readable, even if it shouldn't be touched.)   
      
   Janis   
      
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