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### 61.1 Introduction to Gentran

Original Authors Barbara Gates and Paul Wang

Gentran is a powerful generator of foreign language code. Currently it can generate FORTRAN, ’C’, and RATFOR code from Maxima language code. Gentran can translate mathematical expressions, iteration loops, conditional branching statements, data type information, function definitions, matrtices and arrays, and more.

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