[Info-vax] Itanic is a dead end : IBM

Michael Kraemer m.kraemer at gsi.de
Mon May 30 07:18:56 EDT 2011


In article <irva43$ofv$1 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip
Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> 
> Right.  This proves my point.  Since then, Fortran 2003 and Fortran 2008 
> have been published.  HP might support Fortran, but it is two versions 
> behind the current standard, i.e. 16 years out of date.
> 

Supply and demand, I'd say.
How much really *new* code is produced in Fortran these days?
let alone code using these extensions?
And even if so, most of it wouldn't be done on Itanics,
let alone the legacy platforms Alpha, VAX or VMS. 



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