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

[Scott Dorsey]

=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>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.

In the case of Ada, the validation suite establishes a system as being a
de-facto industry standard, and at one point the DEC compiler was the only
one in existence that could run the full validation suite.
--scott
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