[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/7/2019 3:17 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> Back in the day, DEC's compilers were widely recognized as the  best,
> and in many cases were the de-facto industry standard.

Were there anything but Fortran that was DEC?

As I remember it then PL/I and Cobol were IBM, C were Unix,
Pascal was Apple and Borland and Basic was Microsoft.

>                                                       I'd like to see
> that revived.

No chance.

VSI does not have the resources.

VSI are building on what others are doing (LLVM).

> In particular, it would be nice if Fortran were brought
> up to date.  Reasonable versions of Pascal, C, C++, Cobol, and Basic
> would be nice.

Fortran, C and C++ can be fixed by using LLVM.

Pascal and Basic are more questionable. First problem would be: what 
standard?

Arne