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On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 07:57:48 -0500, "Michael F. Stemper"
<michael.stemper@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 01/09/2024 20.39, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> On 8/30/2024 4:38 PM, D wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, 30 Aug 2024, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 8/29/2024 11:01 AM, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>>>>> On 28 Aug 2024 at 12:51:29 BST, "Graham" <zotzlists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 28/08/2024 06:01, Titus G wrote:
>>>>>>> On 27/08/24 22:10, Graham wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1234567890
>>>>>>> 2234567890
>>>>>>> 3234567890
>>>>>>> 4234567890
>>>>>>> 5234567890
>>>>>>> 6234567890
>>>>>>> 7234567890
>>>>>>> 8234567890
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll take the bait. Please explain your signature.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nothing exciting, I'm afraid. 80 characters.
>>>>>
>>>>> Should be 72, Shirley?
>>>>>
>>>>>      Cheers - Jaime
>>>>
>>>> I have written a quarter of a million (SWAG) lines of Fortran in my lifetime. If I never write another line I will be happy.  But I will write more Fortran next Tuesday.  Converting it all to C++ cannot come soon enough.
>>>>
>>>> Lynn
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ahh... but isn't it true that C++ is only for nerds? All the cool kids write rust these days!
>> 
>> Converting Fortran or C++ to Rust is non trivial.  I have actually considered it.  Shoot, converting Fortran to C++ is non trivial.
>
>I would guess that a straight translation of Fortran to C++ could be
>automated. However, there doesn't seem to be any point in it unless
>you're going to make use of the object-oriented capabilities of C++.
>Then, of course, you're looking at a complete refactoring, which would,
>indeed, be non-trivial.

I'm not too keen on trusting an automated translation of what I think
Lynn has said is a couple of million lines of code

I had to clean up after an automated conversion of something much
smaller and it wasn't fun