[LLVMdev] GSoC project questions.

[Anton Korobeynikov]

> I agree that creating a complete Fortran compiler is a huge effort.
> But what about approaching it from a test driven development perspective?
> We start with a few small Fortran programs as "test cases".
> The GSoC task then gives the task as getting test case 1 to work.
> We could also apply this of "lfort". Determine a test case that currently
> fails on lfort, and ask the GSoC task to pass the test.
All this make sense only if there is interested party in long-term
development and maintenance. Otherwise the code will bitrot really
quickly and thus will be waste of time and money. Is there such a
party?

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University