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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <qdkr8c$2fd$4 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 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.

   Back when IBM was struggling to create an Ada compiler that was
   useable on thier mainframes, VAX Ada was considered by some proof that 
   Ada was useable.

   Then IBM bought Rational, who had a much better Ada compiler for IBM
   mainframes than IBM did.