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Jim Giles:
   Any such tools that are applicable to J could also be applied to
   Fortran to the same degree.  Debugging, for example, cannot be done
   for either language in a system independent way unless you
   interpret the source.  Source interpretation can be applied to
   Fortran.

Is there a standard for interpreted Fortran?  Does it allow you to
write utilities in platform-independent Fortran for debugging?  Can
you mix interpreted and compiled Fortran [to obtain speed for commonly
repeated operations]?

How easy is it to change a declaration in interpreted Fortran, should
that declaration turn out to be a problem?  Can Fortran be used to
manipulate blocks of interpreted code?

Or are you limited to whatever user interface your interpreted Fortran
vendor provides?

What facilities does Fortran have to support interpreted interaction?
[Note: I've never seen a Fortran interpreter, and am not sure I'd
consider such a thing to be particularly useful.  The design of
Fortran seems, to me, to demand more "batch-oriented" debugging
techniques.]

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Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell                   <rockwell@socrates.umd.edu>