On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 8:53 AM, Bruce Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also note that neither F77 nor ratfor produced particularly good code. > They did, however, work. Both attributes are required by the Fortran > community.
ratfor was a preprocessor written in fortran, for fortran, which we don't have, and gave us lots of useful tools like, um, ed, and, uh, grep, uh, nroff and, uh, and ... oh we have those already right? I don't get the point of ratfor at all. It was originally to give non-Unix people a taste of Unix. Don't get me wrong, I used and loved those tools, but that was a generation ago. But it's dead now, and the reasons for its existence don't apply to Plan 9. We've got enough to do without any more Lazarus projects. ron
