A PhD Defense on Legacy Software Modernization: from Esope to Fortran 2008

I had the pleasure of serving as a reviewer for Younoussa Sow’s PhD defense in Lille, on a topic that is both challenging and fascinating: the automatic migration of Esope to Fortran 2008. This CIFRE PhD, carried out with Framatome and co-supervised by Nicolas Anquetil and Stéphane Ducasse, tackles a major modernization challenge: migrating around one million lines of scientific code built on…