[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[John Reagan]

On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 8:49:22 AM UTC-5, Paul Sture wrote:
> 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.

There is a new Fortran frontend for LLVM named 'flang'.  

https://github.com/flang-compiler/flang