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From: Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2025 19:30:51 -0000 (UTC)
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Yes, one of the things I did when I was working at UMass was to convert some 
FORTRAN code to C and yes, automated tool commonly did either a poor job or 
created code that was not maintainable or readable.  (And some of the code 
needed to be made multi-threaded for parallelization.)

At 1 Apr 2025 17:35:11 GMT rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 14:40:27 -0000 (UTC), Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > It should be noted that GnuCOBOL actually translates COBOL to C, and
> > then compiles the C code with GnuC.  In *theory* one could just run the
> > whole code base through GnuCOBOL and create a C code base, but good luck
> > making much sense of the generated C code...
> 
> I never did it with COBOL but I did use 'f2c' to generate C code from 
> Fortran. When I saw the results I wrote the C code manually. It probably 
> would have compiled and ran but it was not maintainable. I've seen more 
> readable output from disassemblers.
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> 

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