I just happened upon the the footnote on page 187 of the Pickaxe book about how RDoc can document Fortran 77. Does Dave Thomas write a lot of Fortran code?
I had to ask.
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Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.
-Frank William Leahy, football coach (1908-1973)
No, but the NASA folks do, and they submitted a patch 
Dave
On Aug 9, 2006, at 22:32, Chris Gehlker wrote:
I just happened upon the the footnote on page 187 of the Pickaxe book about how RDoc can document Fortran 77. Does Dave Thomas write a lot of Fortran code?
Chris Gehlker wrote:
I just happened upon the the footnote on page 187 of the Pickaxe book about how RDoc can document Fortran 77. Does Dave Thomas write a lot of Fortran code?
Actually my officemate and I hacked that crude Fortran/90/ parser
into RDoc one afternoon (100 LOC, fragile regexps) and Dave accepted
it into the fold.
Our group never really found much use for it, and so we didn't
pursue developing it. The GFD Dennou Club, however, has created
a (robust, polished) version that I believe Ryan Davis is trying
to work into core or split out as a gem -- see
http://dennou-h.gfd-dennou.org/library/dcmodel/doc/rdoc-dennou/
Later,
--
Bil
http://funit.rubyforge.org
Dave Thomas wrote:
I just happened upon the the footnote on page 187 of the Pickaxe book about how RDoc can document Fortran 77. Does Dave Thomas write a lot of Fortran code?
No, but the NASA folks do, and they submitted a patch
Dave
NASA still uses FORTRAN *77*? Man, *that's* frightening ... does their patch work with the "new" dialects like 90 and 95?
<ducking>
On Aug 9, 2006, at 22:32, Chris Gehlker wrote:
Thanks for the explanation. It does make sense now.
On Aug 11, 2006, at 1:50 AM, Bil Kleb wrote:
Actually my officemate and I hacked that crude Fortran/90/ parser
into RDoc one afternoon (100 LOC, fragile regexps) and Dave accepted
it into the fold.Our group never really found much use for it, and so we didn't
pursue developing it. The GFD Dennou Club, however, has created
a (robust, polished) version that I believe Ryan Davis is trying
to work into core or split out as a gem -- see
--
For blocks are better cleft with wedges,
Than tools of sharp or subtle edges,
And dullest nonsense has been found
By some to be the most profound.
-Samuel Butler,
so do we - TONS. the thing with g77 compiled code, however, is that the abi
is available to ruby/dl - this is no small advantage over f90 because i allows
one to __only__ write routines in fortran - no top level code.
-a
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
Dave Thomas wrote:
On Aug 9, 2006, at 22:32, Chris Gehlker wrote:
I just happened upon the the footnote on page 187 of the Pickaxe book about how RDoc can document Fortran 77. Does Dave Thomas write a lot of Fortran code?
No, but the NASA folks do, and they submitted a patch
Dave
NASA still uses FORTRAN *77*? Man, *that's* frightening ... does their patch work with the "new" dialects like 90 and 95?
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meditation and prayer.
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