fortran to C converter

[dmr at alice.UUCP]

This newsgroup has become very silly lately, rather like the end of a
Python sketch.

Giles stated, "On the Cray, doubles have 28 digits of precision,
but it takes 50 (that's right - FIFTY) time as long to compute with
doubles as with singles," which is incorrect for the Cray C compiler.

Actually, with Cray's C, everything but chars is 64 bits.  Giles may
have confused C with Fortran.  The CFT compiler needs an option to make
doubleprecision 64 rather than 128 bits, but the C compilers don't,
and don't seem to have the opposite option.

Speaking of doubleprecision, the next topic of discussion is why C
believes in whitespace.

				Dennis Ritchie