[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <p48khv$28e$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
> I can only think of one type of application where I would
> consider Fortran an obvious candidate: number crunching
> (BLAS, LAPACK etc.).

   Yes.  Fortran is often still the best be for number crunching.  It's
   in heavy use on supercomputers.

   I don't expect VMS to necessarily run on supercomputers, but my
   laptop runs circle around a Cray-1 and some of us do need to do
   some number crunching.