Ian Chivers wrote:
>I was teaching last week (a one week fortran 95 course) and both groups
>on the course were involved or about to become involved in converting
>large production codes from 77 to 95.
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>firstly has anyone experience of using these tools and do they have
>any comments regarding them.
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>secondly has anyone used more than one of them and can
>highlight some of the strengths and weaknesses of these tools.
>
>cheers
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Hi,
during the last years I did a lot such conversions, partly "by hand",
but mostly using the NAG tools (and
NAG tools only). These tools are very useful to do the tedious parts of
conversion. However, as I see it,
they cannot change the mind from "thinking f77" to "thinking f95": this
is still up to the programmer.
In this respect I - for my part - decided to use the restrictions
imposed by the subset F as far as possible.
Greetings,
Volker
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