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On Sat, 5 Sep 2026 03:36:51 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>   Anyway, 'upgraded' old FORTRAN routines for a long time.
>    Re-wrote them IN FORTRAN though, not 'C' or whatever.
>    Re-do FORTRAN in FORTRAN and everything is smooth, no 'alien' modules
>    to import.

When almost all of the code base is C, FORTRAN would be a problem for 
future maintenance. I am familiar with FORTRAN. Most younger programmers 
aren't.

There was precedent. The company had its own geodatabase and code based on 
DbVista. Way back when the interface was FORTRAN but it had been converted 
to C. That was before my time and I don't know the history or when Motif 
was selected for the GUI toolkit. 

https://cyber.dabamos.de/programming/modernfortran/motif.html

Shudder...