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

Michael Kraemer m.kraemer at gsi.de
Tue May 31 06:46:59 EDT 2011


In article <is0ufn$62n$2 at online.de>, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip
Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> In article <irvuf0$qvc$1 at lnx107.hrz.tu-darmstadt.de>, m.kraemer at gsi.de
> (Michael Kraemer) writes: 
> 
> > In article <irva43$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 behind the current standard, i.e. 16 years out of date.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?
> 
> Chicken and egg.

Well, the "chickens" coming from Uni's these days
mostly even don't know how to spell "Fortran",
regardless of computing platform.



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