[Info-vax] Fortran

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/4/2018 12:30 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Monday, December 3, 2018 at 3:24:50 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>                                                                 Or
>>> Extended Pascal (although we're about 2/3rds compliant on that with
>>> DEC extensions to cover much of the rest).
>>
>> This I don't get. Are there any newer Pascal standards?
> 
> There was the original "classic" Pascal ISO 7185. Instead of
> updating that standard with newer stuff, a separate Extended Pascal
> standard ISO 10206 was created (politics) with lots of good stuff
> like run-time sized types, variable length strings, complex numbers,
> etc.

I knew that.

But Extended Pascal is from 1990 so it is not a new standard.

But I think I get it now - you were saying that you will not spend
resources implementing the delta between current VMS Pascal and
Extended Pascal.

Which makes sense to me.

Arne