On Sat, Dec 30, 2017 at 4:13 AM, bartc <b...@freeuk.com> wrote: > If you want to translate code from one language to another, and the source > language uses gotos, or uses control structures not available in the target > language, then gotos would be very useful in the latter. >
As has already been said in this thread, a competent FORTRAN programmer can write FORTRAN code in any language. But if you want to actually write Python code, instead of writing FORTRAN code that gets run through a Python interpreter, you have to grok the Python way of doing things. You can't do that by mechanically transforming source code into the syntax of a different language. People who try to tell you that all programming languages are identical, just with different syntax, are doing you a disservice. Lisp is not Python is not REXX is not C is not DeScribe Macro Language. (Especially the latter. Do NOT try to write C code in DML. It'll look ugly. Trust me.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list