RATional Fortran


RATional Fortran

(language)(RATFOR) Brian Kernighan's Fortranpreprocessor that allows programming with C-like control flow. RATFOR is mainly of historical significance.

A translator from Ratfor to Fortran IV was posted tocomp.sources.Unix volume 13.

ftp://ftp.wustl.edu/mirrors/Unix-c/languages/ratfor.tar-z.

["Ratfor - A Preprocessor for a Rational Fortran",B.W. Kernighan, Soft Prac & Exp 5:395-406, Oct 1975].

["Software Tools", B.W. Kernighan & P.J. Plauger, A-W, 1976].