Use of AI/ML for refactoring

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Are there any artificial intelligence/machine learning packages available on Windows that potentially could be used to refactor Fortran (after figuring out how to use/train the AI pacakge)? Seems that would be a good application of the technology, and there are quite a few commercial web pages for similar products (although Fortran is not one of the languages), but it may be that learning how to set things up might be more effort than doing the refactoring by hand.

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What I have tried:

Just beginning to check things out, have found several commercial products, but none for refactoring legacy Fortran.

Posted 5-Sep-22 14:18pm

lewist57

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[no name] 6-Sep-22 10:37am

AI / ML is more about recognition and classification; you'd have to "train" it to recognize bad code; and it doesn't "fix" things; that would be another application. And yes, training is a lot of work; because you have to "tag" sample "bad" code in the first place; AI doesn't operate in a vacuum.

lewist57 6-Sep-22 11:39am

Yup further research confirms your stance, there is no magic bullet here. I will stick with good old logic and regular expressions to accomplish the objectives.

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