[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[DaveFroble]

John Reagan wrote:
> 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
> 

John, you know a bit about languages.  Let me ask a question.

I'll preface the question by admitting that I view much of the "new languages" 
as some people who just want to "re-invent the wheel".

Do the "new languages" actually present more and better capabilities?


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