Re: FORTRAN -> C++ -> multithread
A Marlow wrote:
I'm considering porting the whole enchilada to C++. I'd
take the opportunity to rewrite using user-defined classes and
the GSL
In preparation, I've read three C++ texts and written a handful of
programs.
I'm thinking the port won't be difficult. Am I wrong?
I am going to disagree with the two responses made so far and say...do
it!!! Change to C++!!
Hindsight is 20/20, and you have plenty of that. The code is probably
not pretty if it has undergone revision many times. Your gut instinct
is correct - if you do the rewrite correctly, you will eliminate a
large number of problems with the new code.
Make it cleaner. Make it prettier. Make it faster. Make it more
regular.
And whatever you do, don't treat it as clay that can be combined with
other clay to make a bigger blobs of clay. Programs are discardable.
It is the form which they represent that is not.
The FORTRAN programmes will probably fight you tooth and nail to keep
you from redoing their work. I would suggest you just do it and keep
quiet about it until it is done. Then manage well the
presentation/introduction of it.
Good luck.
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