Fortran 77

[Chris Gehlker]

I just happened upon the the footnote on page 187 of the Pickaxe book
about how RDoc can document Fortran 77. Does Dave Thomas write a lot
of Fortran code?

I had to ask.

 

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

No, but the NASA folks do, and they submitted a patch


Dave

NASA still uses FORTRAN *77*? Man, *that's* frightening ... does their
patch work with the "new" dialects like 90 and 95?

<ducking>

 

[ara.t.howard]

NASA still uses FORTRAN *77*? Man, *that's* frightening ... does their patch
work with the "new" dialects like 90 and 95?

so do we - TONS. the thing with g77 compiled code, however, is that the abi
is available to ruby/dl - this is no small advantage over f90 because i allows
one to __only__ write routines in fortran - no top level code.

-a

 

[Bil Kleb]

I just happened upon the the footnote on page 187 of the Pickaxe book
about how RDoc can document Fortran 77. Does Dave Thomas write a lot of
Fortran code?

Actually my officemate and I hacked that crude Fortran/90/ parser
into RDoc one afternoon (100 LOC, fragile regexps) and Dave accepted
it into the fold.

Our group never really found much use for it, and so we didn't
pursue developing it. The GFD Dennou Club, however, has created
a (robust, polished) version that I believe Ryan Davis is trying
to work into core or split out as a gem -- see

http://dennou-h.gfd-dennou.org/library/dcmodel/doc/rdoc-dennou/

Later,

 

[Chris Gehlker]

Actually my officemate and I hacked that crude Fortran/90/ parser
into RDoc one afternoon (100 LOC, fragile regexps) and Dave accepted
it into the fold.

Our group never really found much use for it, and so we didn't
pursue developing it. The GFD Dennou Club, however, has created
a (robust, polished) version that I believe Ryan Davis is trying
to work into core or split out as a gem -- see

Thanks for the explanation. It does make sense now.

--
For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Than tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonsense has been found
By some to be the most profound.
-Samuel Butler,