[tex-live] Fortran and Pascal sources

Philip Taylor (Webmaster, Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Tue Oct 5 09:02:36 CEST 2010



Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 4 October 2010 Karl Berry wrote:
>
>   >  How about "simply" rewriting the Fortran program in C :)?
>
> Seriously, *if* someone is willing and has the time to port it to
> another language, then IMO texlua is by far the best choice.

See the earlier reply, Reinhard : the program is an ongoing
work-in-progress, so any port could only freeze it at some
arbitrary point in its evolution.

<aside class="provoke">
	How wonderful it was to learn that there is at least
	one other person in the world who prefers to work in
	sane, elegant, traditional languages such as Fortran
	and Pascal rather than in that spawn-of-the-devil "C"
	so beloved by geeks and nerds world-wide.
</>

** Phil.


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