[Info-vax] Google Groups unresponsive (was: Re: fortran compiler roadmap?)

[John Wallace]

On Apr 18, 4:49 pm, Paul Sture <nos... at sture.ch> wrote:
> In article <kkmujq$eq... at online.de>,
>  hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply)
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> > In article <kklnsc$b2... at speranza.aioe.org>, Anton Shterenlikht
> > <me... at mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> writes:
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> > > 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?
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> > 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.)
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> 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".
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> IIRC that was Richard Maine, but Google Groups is so incredibly slow at
> the moment that I gave up my quest to find it :-(
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> Paul Sture

Wrt Google Groups being slow: the behaviour I'm seeing, still using
the old Google Groups not the new unimproved one, is that if I don't
get a response quickly, there probably won't be a response in a
sensible timeframe, but if I repeat the same request (having waited a
second or two) it'll usually respond within a sensible timeframe. I
wasn't sure whether this was possibly packet loss at my ISP (but I
don't see any similar problem anywhere else) or bad load balancing at
Google Groups. I now vote for bad load balancing.