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

[Ken Fairfield]

On May 31, 8:19 am, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilber... at comcast.net>
wrote:
> On 5/31/2011 10:02 AM, Bob Koehler wrote:
>
> > In article<1ca5f619-fc08-4f65-be4c-b66129575... at x1g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, IanMiller<g... at uk2.net>  writes:
>
> >> HP will continue to support HP-UX and OpenVMS compilers for FORTRAN
> >> and C/C++ on I64.
>
> >     That's good.  How about develop?  Fortran-95 is getting a little long
> >     in the tooth.
>
> What do you need to do that Fortran-95 cannot/will not do?

Go over to comp.lang.fortran and see the various things
people are doing with f2003 and f2008.  Two that come
to mind are support for parallel processing in the form
of Co-Arrays, and a variety of OO enhancements that
fit the Fortran model (*not* the C++ model).

Polyhedron Software (http://www.polyhedron.com/) has
a comparison of Fortran compilers for various platforms
which lists features from the f2003 and f2008 that are
supported by various compilers.  It's a long list.

People who do serious numerical work, e.g., weather
forecasting, etc., use modern Fortran, BTW.

    -Ken