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Duncan Sands wrote:
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<pre wrap="">If that fails, I will build a
front-end using ANTLR [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://antlr.org">http://antlr.org</a>] a parser generator with which
I am familiar and for which a FORTRAN grammar is already available
(targeting an obsolete version of ANTLR, but it should not be too
difficult to update).
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Bad plan. I doubt you can build a serious fortran compiler in this way
in the time-frame you are considering.
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I agree. I used to work on Fortran compiler long, long ago in a
former life. There is no way you're going to write a usable front-end
from scratch in a few months, even with the head start of a parser.
The parser is the easy bit.<br>
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Also -- and I'm surprised no one else noticed this -- you misspell
FORTRAN as FORTAN as often as not. That does not make a good
impression :)<br>
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