> Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 15:03:46 -0800
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> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > IMHO the simplest and most important of the conversions are:
> > 1. conversion to free form source input.
> > 2. wrapping the main program around the subroutines and functions,
> > (with the help of the CONTAINs statement).
> > This approach requires a minimum of effort, and is unlikely to introduce
> > new bugs (but note that any conversion to the modern form
> > is likely to find pre-existing bugs)
> > The above checks subroutine interfaces and may pick up some
> > typos in the original code.
>
> Hmmm, let me see. My program consists of 3683 subroutines and functions,
> in addition to the main program, occupying 330623 lines.
Do you really think that an original F77 program as large as that
would have been organized as a single file?
> --
> Van Snyder
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