[Info-vax] fortran compiler roadmap?

[Anton Shterenlikht]

glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:

>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.

I was under the impression that, at least wrt
scientific/engineering uses, Cray compiler
has been ahead of the standard for at least
the last 20 years. Right now Cray have many
features which are likely to appear in the
next standard (coarray reductions).

Anyway, back to my original post: I'm happily
running my fortran 2008 codes on linux/x86-64
with GCC, Intel and Cray compilers and on
FreeBSD/ia64 with GCC. I try to test the
portability as much as possible, so having access
to a 2008 compliant (at least as far as coarrays)
compiler on VMS would be great.
>From all the replies I got, I gather it's not
going to happen any time soon.

Many thanks

Anton