[Info-vax] Fortran

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Mon Dec 3 18:44:02 EST 2018


In article <pu4bc9$11i0$1 at gioia.aioe.org>,
Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>In article <pu3aqj$3g8$4 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
><clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 
>
>> It wasn't clear exactly what Phillip meant which is why I raised
>> the issue in case he is thinking of Fortran 2018 becoming available
>> on existing VMS architectures as well as x86-64.
>
>There was no Fortran90 for the VAX, nor do I expect Fortran2018 on 
>anything but x86.

There certainly was, the NAG Fortran 90 compiler for the vax was very
popular.  I still have a couple people who lament it because it had
very good error messages... we kept it around for a long time even after
people were doing most development on unix systems because it was a
great debugging aid.
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."



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