[Info-vax] Text processing examples with Fortran requested

[Arne Vajhøj]

Ken Fairfield wrote:
> I hate to jump in here (really, I do! :-), but the current
> Fortran standard is Fortran 2003, and the most commonly
> available compilers are Fortran 95 compliant (that would be
> the various versions available on Windows, g95 and gfortran
> on linux and Windows, as well as IBM's and Cray's on
> their platforms, etc.  The Alpha & Integrity VMS compiler
> is also Fortran 95 compliant.
> 
> Except for Glen, who loves the history of Fortran (and
> various other languages and computer-related things),
> I really don't understand why people here are so locked
> into discussing a 32-year-old version of a language
> which has a widely available 13-year-old(!) version,
> is under continuing development, and has a new
> version (Fortran 2008) in the midst of the public
> comment period.
> 
> Are we VMS folks really the old dinosaurs that
> others label us as?


The average age is probably relative high compared to most
other newsgroups.

And a significant portion of people are no longer working
with VMS in their day job.

And the number of people working with Fortran 77 two decades
ago were a orders of magnitude higher than the number of
people working with Fortran 95 today.

And very little of the current Fortran work is done
on VMS (I would expect huge Linux farms to be the
typical config).

So ...

Arne


Arne