Re: Optimization of Fortran Code

[vazquez%iqm.unicamp.ansp.br &$at$& OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Pedro A.M.]

Hi:
         From Personal Workstation, Dec 90
 Article:"Another Look at FORTRAN"
 (by A. G. W. Cameron, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
 "PRISM: Prism is a set of FORTRAN utilities developed by Polyhedron
 Software Ltd
 in England and sold in United States by OTG Systems. The centerpiece of the
 action is SPAG, a utility for replacing the "spaghetti" code found in
 older
 FORTRAN programs with modern structured FORTRAN statements. The utility was de
 veloped for mainframes and is quite mature; the PC version is 2.25
        In addition to reestructuring FORTRAN programs, SPAG "pretty
 prints" the
 output. There are 50 parameters that the user can adjust to determine the chara
 cteristics of restruturing and pretty-printing."
 .....
         "The good news is that this is a very valuable set of utilities.
 The
 bad news is the price: $3000 for a version in which SPAG can handle 500 non
 coment lines per module. To get 3000 lines per module, you pay $6000. There
 is also a required 15 percent maintenance fee per year. These prices also
 apply to workstation versions of the package"
 .......
 "OTG Systems, Inc
 P.O. Box 239
 Clifford, PA 18413-0239
 (717) 222-9100"
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 Pedro/IQ-UNICAMP