25.7 Summary
This chapter has shown some of the options open to you when working with legacy code. The emphasis has been on relatively straightforward code restructuring. The use of software tools to aid in this is highly recommended as converting manually using an editor is obviously going to involve much more work.
In Chapter 26 we will look at an example that involves a major rewrite using user defined data types.
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(2006). Converting from Fortran 77. In: Introduction to Programming with Fortran. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-054-0_25
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