Re: VMs: Is there a plain best-guess transcription?

[Koontz John E <John.Koontz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> You didn't say it, so I will. It is a fortran program written in C. You
> know what they say about fortran programmers (which I was at the time).

Hey, back in the day, so was I!  As I recall, one of the dictums was, "I
don't know what language we'll be using in 2000, but it will be called
Fortran."  Which turned out to be wrong, though if C had been substituted
for Fortran it would have been close enough.  Anyway, though there are
several different styles of both C and Fortran coding, I have always
thought Fortran an honorable calling and potentially more readable than C.

I've been working on some Tcl code to do my retranscribing. I'd thought of
ramping up with Python, and Winkelman's choice of Perl is also good, but
it has turned out to be easier for me to resuscitate Tcl, which is less
restricting than another alternative, AWK.  You get tired of making
everything a side effect of reading the next line of input.

I will make my Tcl code available to folks when it is ready, but it may be
too specialized to be useful.

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