Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.spitfire.i.gajendra.net!not-for-mail From: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:01:16 -0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 13:01:16 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="spitfire.i.gajendra.net:166.84.136.80"; logging-data="24281"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Originator: cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:58447 alt.folklore.computers:226993 In article , Bob Eager wrote: >On Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:12:30 +0000, Dan Cross wrote: > >> In article , >> Bob Eager wrote: >>>I can't remember who originally wrote it, but I came across a version of >>>'ed' (the standard UNIX editor, none of this visual stuff) written in >>>FORTRAN. >> >> The first "Software Tools" book by Kernighan and Plauger was written >> using "ratfor" as the example language; `ratfor` is a "rational FORTRAN" >> frontend that took a semi-structured language as input and emitted >> properly-formed FORTRAN code as output. >> >> They implemeneted an ed-like editor in ratfor for Software Tools. It >> wouldn't surprise me if the editor you saw was that, or something >> derived from it. > >No, it wasn't really. I implemented the ratfor one (and all the other >tools), but the FORTRAN one I'm talking about looks pretty different. > >I still have all the files for the software tools in ratfor publihed by >Lawrence Livermore Laboratory. Huh; curious. I wonder who did it, then. - Dan C.