From: jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu   
      
   On 2025-10-20 21:51, Janis Papanagnou wrote:   
   > 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?   
      
   I've used a system, I don't remember which one, where I found out that   
   the default Fortran "compiler" was simply a script that ran f2c followed   
   by compiling the resulting C code.   
      
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