[Info-vax] fortran compiler roadmap?

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:

(snip)
> 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".

For some years, IBM and DEC were the big players in the game.

DEC Fortran had, relative to IBM, many more extensions to the standard.

By the time of VAX and VMS, DEC wanted people to be able to easily 
switch from IBM, and so would have had to support all the extensions
that IBM had. They also tended to keep any extensions that previous
DEC compilers had added.
 
> IIRC that was Richard Maine, but Google Groups is so incredibly slow at 
> the moment that I gave up my quest to find it :-(

-- glen