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

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Mon Jun 10 18:36:30 EDT 2019


On 6/10/2019 1:53 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-06-07, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> DEC Ada was spoken of (by people who used it) as a very nice Ada 83
> compiler. I never did, so I cannot comment directly.

There is still a difference between being considered nice
and being th de-facto industry standard.

Fortran VAX extensions was a thing. Most other Fortran
compilers has "VAX Fortran compatible" in the marketing
material.

Arne





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