Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.lang.python > #59758

Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013

From Tim Prince <tprince@computer.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.fortran, comp.lang.perl.misc, comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013
Date 2013-11-17 08:30 -0800
Message-ID <bes9a5Ffm6dU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References (1 earlier) <0.444ab0f1470c9d9a7a89.20131117124526GMT.87li0nqjrt.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <F7mdndYtY6YrSRXPnZ2dnUVZ_oWdnZ2d@earthlink.com> <xMydnRjrQ45fSBXPnZ2dnUVZ8mGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <roy-D4B9A4.10202517112013@news.panix.com> <Xv-dnYmZ_vB0cBXPnZ2dnUVZ_jKdnZ2d@earthlink.com>

Cross-posted to 3 groups.

Show all headers | View raw

On 11/17/2013 8:25 AM, E.D.G. wrote:
> "Roy Smith" <roy@panix.com> wrote in message
> news:roy-D4B9A4.10202517112013@news.panix.com...
>
>> Scientists view computer programs as tools, no different from any other
>
>        I agree totally.  There are many scientists who learn how to
> write programs to help with their scientific work.  I doubt that there
> are too many programmers who go out and get an additional degree in
> biology, chemistry, or physics to help with their programming work.  And
> there appears to me to often be a gap between how people in the two
> different worlds go about getting things done.
>
>        Since this program translation will be done by someone who
> actually wrote program code for a living it will at least actually look
> like a program when it is finished.  There will be indentation etc.
>
Perhaps you would start with an automatic indentation tool before 
translating.  You may have a rule against using current syntax and 
indentation for Fortran, but others don't.

-- 
Tim Prince

Back to comp.lang.python | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-14 08:18 -0600
  Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 mecej4 <mecej4_nospam@operamail.com> - 2013-11-14 11:07 -0600
    Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Gordon Sande <Gordon.Sande@gmail.com> - 2013-11-14 13:36 -0400
      Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Clive Page <usenet@page2.eu> - 2013-11-15 11:46 +0000
    Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Jürgen Exner <jurgenex@hotmail.com> - 2013-11-17 09:02 -0800
  Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-15 07:51 -0600
    Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-17 04:25 -0600
      Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2013-11-17 12:45 +0000
        Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-17 08:37 -0600
          Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Henry Law <news@lawshouse.org> - 2013-11-17 14:42 +0000
            Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-17 10:20 -0500
              Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-18 02:28 +1100
              Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-17 10:25 -0600
                Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Tim Prince <tprince@computer.org> - 2013-11-17 08:30 -0800
                Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-11-17 11:43 -0500
                Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 nospam@see.signature (Richard Maine) - 2013-11-17 09:05 -0800
                Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-11-17 12:29 -0500
                Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-18 11:30 -0600
              Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2013-11-17 18:59 +0000
          Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "James Van Buskirk" <not_valid@comcast.net> - 2013-11-17 09:05 -0700
        Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Charlton Wilbur <cwilbur@chromatico.net> - 2013-11-17 23:22 -0500
      Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-17 10:17 -0600
        Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-17 12:07 -0600
      Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2013-11-17 22:28 -0500
        Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-18 11:15 -0600
          Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 Joel Goldstick <joel.goldstick@gmail.com> - 2013-11-18 12:35 -0500
      Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013 "E.D.G." <edgrsprj@ix.netcom.com> - 2013-11-19 05:26 -0600
        Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-11-19 20:51 +0000
          Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013 Yaşar Arabacı <yasar11732@gmail.com> - 2013-11-19 23:31 +0200
          Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013 Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2013-11-19 21:35 +0000
            Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013 glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2013-11-19 22:43 +0000
              Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-11-20 10:01 +1100
              Re: Several Topics - Nov. 19, 2013 gamo <gamo@telecable.es> - 2013-11-20 21:48 +0100
  Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 "Terence" <tbwright@bigpond.net.au> - 2013-11-16 20:31 +1100
    Re: Program Translation - Nov. 14, 2013 William Ray Wing <wrw@mac.com> - 2013-11-16 09:00 -0500

csiph-web