Ratfor (17KB tar.gz)
is freely available on our ftp site. (You may have to press the shift key
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Ratfor is preprocessor for FORTRAN code that allows us to use
C-like flow expressions. Jon Claerbout believes that Ratfor is
the best available expository language for mathematical algorithms.
Ratfor was invented by Brian Kernigham who also co-wrote the first C book.
You will not really need precise definitions of Ratfor to use it.
Statements on a line may be separated by a ";". Statements may be
grouped together with braces {}. Do loops do not require statement
numbers because {} defines the range, etc.
The Fortran relational operators .gt.,.ge,.ne., etc. may
be written >,<=,!=,etc.
Unfortunately, the Ratfor switch statement conflicts with implicit undefined declaration, consequently we never use it.
Ratfor also frees you from FORTRANs strict indentation rules.
Anything from a # to the end of the line is a comment.
Ratfor offers quite a few more features more and we strongly
recommend it to any FORTRAN programmer.
Ratfor
