# Toy translators from C to Fortran and Fortran to C++

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**Created:** [April 13, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/toy-translators-from-c-to-fortran-and-fortran-to-c/9585 "2025-04-13T13:09:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Beliavsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Beliavsky](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Beliavsky)\
**Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/toy-translators-from-c-to-fortran-and-fortran-to-c/9585/1 "2025-04-13T13:09:02Z")

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I asked LLMs such as Chat-GPT o3-high to write a Python script that translates some small C programs to Fortran

> **[GitHub - Beliavsky/PyC2F: Partial translator from C to Fortran in Python....](https://github.com/Beliavsky/PyC2F)**
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> Partial translator from C to Fortran in Python. Works for only a few simple programs.

and to translate Fortran to C++

> **[GitHub - Beliavsky/f2cpp: Partial Fortran to C++ translator in Python](https://github.com/Beliavsky/f2cpp)**
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> Partial Fortran to C++ translator in Python

The sites have examples of the small programs that can be translated. By debugging such scripts one encounters the syntax differences between Fortran and C/C++.