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Re: [tools-leads] Welcome Tools Project Leads

I'm Ralph Johnson.  I'm the lead of Photran, the Fortran plugin.  I'm
a professor at the University of Illinois, so, unlike most of you, I
don't get much time to do actual programming, but mostly talk to
students about programming.  Fortunately, one of my students is Jeff
Overbey, and he more than makes up for it.  Photran is a plugin to
CDT, so we try to pay attantion to what happens there, but we actually
interact more with PTP.

One of the things that I am proud of is that our name is NOT a three
letter acronym.  Originally, people wanted to call us FDT, but it
sounded too much like a flower delivery company.  It can be hard for a
newcomer to tall different Eclipse projects apart, but "Photran" is
memorable.  BTW, it is named after a Vietnamese restaurant that used
to be across the street from my office, and is pronounced the way a
Texan would say "Fortran".

-Ralph


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