[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Paul Sture]

On 2018-01-24, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 1/23/2018 3:17 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> In article <p45v88$1u3q$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>> Languages needed for old stuff:
>>>
>>> Fortran - HP/VSI, will be ported
>> 
>>> Languages needed for new stuff:
>> 
>> Hey!  One can write new code in Fortran!
>
> You can.
>
> But if you look at 1000 new applications how many of them will
> actually be in Fortran?

If you look at the scientific and High Performance world, Fortran
is still in use.

There is of course lots of existing Fortran 77 code, but Fortran 77
apparently still has a distinct performance advantage over later
versions, so it is used for new programs as well.

> My guess: most likely none, maybe one or two.

Probably more if you confine your search to the sector which uses
Fortran already.

-- 
In 1911, Hollerith's firm was merged with several other producers of
specialized business equipment to produce CTR, the Computing-Tabulating
-Recording Company. The "Computing" part referred to weighing scales -
an interesting example of how language evolves over time.