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   Lynn McGuire to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: "Internationalis(z)ing Code - Comput   
   09 Feb 26 15:32:10   
   
   XPost: comp.lang.c++   
   From: lynnmcguire5@gmail.com   
      
   On 2/7/2026 1:15 PM, Thomas Koenig wrote:   
   > Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> The only conversion problem that I am worried about is that I have   
   >> Fortran 66 interpreter built into my software for my customers to write   
   >> custom calculations embedded in their datasets attached to any type of   
   >> object.  I will need to write a converter for the F66 format statements   
   >> to C formats.   
   >   
   > I haven't used your software, but I have used Aspen (only very   
   > little) and found it horrible.  How it is possible for a solution to   
   > diverge when the starting solution is already converged is beyond   
   > me, all explanations that occur to me could be considered insults,   
   > so I am not toing to go into that.  That was worst; I hope your   
   > software does better.   
   >   
   > But the F66 interpreter in Aspen was a close second; IIRC, it was   
   > not even possible to declare variables. Argh.   
   ...   
      
   Huh, that does not make sense.  One needs variables to decomplicate   
   complex calculations.  We even support common blocks in our F66   
   interpreter user code so that variables can be stored from one iteration   
   to the next.   
      
   Lynn   
      
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