6 Jan
2012
6 Jan
'12
6:08 a.m.
On 6 Jan 2012 at 0:20, Toby Thain wrote:
"A preprocessor is a program which translates
a Fortran* dialect
with
adequate control flow statements into pure Fortran; ideally you never
need to look at the generated Fortran. (The 'pseudo-code' that we will
present in the next sections is based on Ratfor ... it is described in
Software Tools, by Brian W. Kernighan and P.J. Plauger,
Addison-Wesley, 1976.)
"A third possibility is to think out your code in a decent
language,
Old stuff, really--precedes 1976 by quite a way.
Re: Integer variables initial letter i-n in FORTRAN has an
interesting precedent in NELIAC. The variables i through n
represented index registers with integer values.
--Chuck