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   Message 4,945 of 5,127   
   Lynn McGuire to Lynn McGuire   
   Re: converting a 700,000+ line Fortran 7   
   13 Apr 25 17:59:26   
   
   XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 4/11/2025 3:47 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:   
   > On 4/11/2025 11:00 AM, Steven G. Kargl wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 11 Apr 2025 11:37:17 +0200, Bonita Montero wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Am 09.04.2025 um 21:48 schrieb Lynn McGuire:   
   >>>   
   >>>> No, we want to get away from compiling and linking directly.   
   >>>> That is what we use with Open Watcom F77 and C++.   
   >>>   
   >>> The Watcom stuff is totally outdated.   
   >>> Is there no way to get something newer ?   
   >>   
   >> You must be new here in c.l.f.  Lynn has been converting   
   >> his 700 KLOC of Fortran to C++ for 2+ decades.  It seems   
   >> his code, which clearly isn't Fortran, can only be compiled   
   >> by a Watcom language compiler.  For those playing along,   
   >> that's roughy converting 140 lines of code per workday   
   >> with 2 weeks for good behavior (ie., 700000 / (50*5*20)).   
   >   
   > Don't forget maintenance (bug fixing) and user needed new features that   
   > require about 60 to 70% of our time.   
   >   
   > Lynn   
      
   And don't forget that we spent a lot of time updating the code by   
   converting all of the Hollerith characters to character strings.  And   
   adding "IMPLICIT NONE" to all of the subroutines requiring the explicit   
   typing of all of the variables (maybe 10% were typed before due to   
   extensive usage of implicit typing rules).   
      
   Lynn   
      
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