[Info-vax] New first boot contest ?, was: Re: Fortran

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-12-05, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Not to worry.  Under no circumstances would we add /STANDARD=VAXC to
> clang. That would be insanity.  We're more likely to recode our Macro32
> into JavaScript and PHP.
>

:-)

> I'm starting with the list of additions we made to the Intel C++ compiler
> on Itanium (which is already much smaller than C++ in Alpha) and cutting
> from there.  I'll finish up the spec after the holidays and first boot. 
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> I'll post it then in a new thread for what will surely be a lively
> discussion.

Oh, I don't think that's the lively discussion you have just started. :-)

Are VSI planning on running a new first boot contest, given how close
it now appears to be ?

Simon.

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