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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: converting a 700,000+ line Fortran 77 plus 50,000+ line C++
 program to C++, part 2
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:14:30 -0500
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On 4/21/2025 11:53 PM, David Duffy wrote:
> In comp.lang.fortran Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 11/23/2022 5:36 PM, Tran Quoc Viet wrote:
>>> On Saturday, November 19, 2022 at 1:01:25 PM UTC+7, Lynn McGuire wrote:
>>>> We are converting a 700,000+ Fortran 77 lines of code plus 50,000+ C++
>>>> lines of code engineering software product to C++. With all that code,
> 
> Mentioned recently on Hacker News:
> 
> https://www.lanl.gov/media/publications/1663/0125-llm-translation
> 
> "...O???Malley is taking open-source LLMs, running them on Lab computers, and
> plying the models with a technique called retrieval-augmented generation
> (RAG), where generative models are enhanced with data from external
> sources. The idea is to train the models to translate from Fortran to C++
> using what???s known as few-shot learning..."

Cool, I am not the only one !

Lynn