[Info-vax] fortran compiler roadmap?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kkpi9h$c0f$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> 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.

   VAX-11 Fortran (as it was known then) didn't get IBM's NAMELIST until 
   3.0, and that was a major sticking point for us.

   Luckily, we didn't start a project that really needed it until about
   2.2, so it was only several months.