Re: Fortran question

[Dave Schnee <DSchnee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trevor:

The problem in converting from Fortran is not the computati0on statements. 
 Today's RPGLE easily handles the math, integer arithmetic, floating point 
arithmetic and variables.  In fact, you can probably take most of the 
Fortran assignment statements directly just by preceding it with an "eval" 
or by using free form and following the statement with a semicolon.  You 
will have to define ALL the variables (remember, the default is that 
variables beginning with the letters I, J, K, L, M and N are integers, all 
others are floating point).  The entire mathematics library with 
trigonometric functions, etc. are all available.

The problem will be in the architecture of the application itself, the I/O 
either to binary files (no FORMAT statement) or internal form to/from 
external form (with a FORMAT statment), any parameters used, the use of 
COMMON storage, etc.  Gosh!  this takes me back to about 1963!

If it's not too huge nor proprietary, post the code - I'll bet a lot of us 
"old timers" would take a crack at it for you.

Dave Schnee,
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

--------------  Trevor Perry wrote  ----------------

date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:52:44 -0600
from: "Trevor Perry" <tperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Fortran question

I have a customer with a baby 36 - not the software.. but the small AS/400 

that was a S/36. They have one application written in FORTRAN which they 
would like to migrate to their iSeries.

Any ideas? Anyone done this before??