[Info-vax] fortran compiler roadmap?

[Paul Sture]

In article <kkmujq$eqi$3 at online.de>,
 helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) 
 wrote:

> In article <kklnsc$b2a$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, Anton Shterenlikht
> <mexas at mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> writes: 
> 
> > Does anybody have any information regarding the
> > future of HP VMS fortran compiler? In particular,
> > do any HP VMS fortran roadmaps include plans to
> > support 2003 or 2008 fortran standards?
> > Or is it staying at 1995 standard for now?
> 
> I've asked this in various places at various times over the last few 
> years.  I think the answer is that we will probably never see a Fortran 
> compiler from the owner of VMS which supports any standard later than 
> F95.  Sic transit gloria mundi.  There was a time when VMS Fortran (in 
> particular VAX Fortran) was the gold standard.  (The Alpha compiler is 
> good as well, it's just that by the time it supported F90, VMS wasn't as 
> popular as it was back in the VAX days.)

I came across a comment some time ago to the effect that when discussing 
details of Fortran compiler implementations for other platforms, it was 
common to say "Let's see what DEC Fortran does here".

IIRC that was Richard Maine, but Google Groups is so incredibly slow at 
the moment that I gave up my quest to find it :-(

-- 
Paul Sture