Re: Shopping for a Compiler Project Idea

Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
1 Apr 1999 00:53:50 -0500

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From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 1 Apr 1999 00:53:50 -0500
Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
References: 99-03-047 99-03-084
Keywords: courses

Siamak Kaveh wrote:
> - A Fortran 95 Compiler plus object oriented extension (proposed for Fortran
> 2000)
> - A Fortran 95 compiler
> - A Fortran 95 to C convertor
> [Having written a Fortran 77 compiler, I think those are about an order
> of magnitude too large for a course project. -John]


:-)


Craig Burley, author of the GNU Fortran (77) compiler estimated
recently that writing up the _design_ for GNU Fortran 9x would require
*him* a year of work.
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