(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.5169) [ukfortran] [ Draft corrigendum 3]

[N.M. Maclaren]

On Dec 23 2013, Van Snyder wrote:
>
>In the 1970's and 1980's, Caine, Farber and Gordon were selling a
>structured Fortran preprocessor called S-Fortran.  When Fortran 90 was
>finally available, there wasn't much use for it (or Ratfor or SFtran or
>any of the others).  But... they also sold a product called the
>Structuring Engine, that would turn "spaghetti code" into S-Fortran.
>Unfortunately, that went away also.
>
>Are there still any structuring engines available?

Some colleagues of mine have a Haskell program that will turn some
GOTO spaghetti into IF-THEN-ELSE and loops.  There are some others
around, but few are more than research projects.

Regards,
Nick Maclaren.