f2cl , maybe off topic for maxima



Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

>>>>>> "Jesper" == Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk> writes:
>
>     Jesper> BTW, is f2cl related to the Fortran-to-Lisp converter described in
>
>     Jesper>    <http://world.std.com/~pitman/Papers/Fortran-to-Lisp.html>; ?
>
> The one discussed here is from the University of New Zealand.  I
> suspect they're not related, but I don't really know.

OK. I found the reference while looking for something unrelated -- and I
just wondered if they were the same.

>     Jesper> I just read the paper quickly, but it seems to claim to be able to
>     Jesper> handle EQUIVALENCE.
>
> But when was the last time you actually used and needed EQUIVALENCE
> statements?  

I've never needed it in my own code, only in old legacy programs.

-- 
Cheers,
Jesper Harder