From chemistry-request@ccl.net Sun Jan 19 12:34:32 1992
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 92 14:42:36 EDT
From: vazquez%iqm.unicamp.ansp.br@OHSTVMA.ACS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Pedro A.M.
Subject: Re: Optimization of Fortran Code
To: chemistry@ccl.net
Status: R

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