[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence Generator Code

[Joukj]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> As someone who was there and fought against the removal of VMS from
> academic circles, you are just plain wrong.  No one other than the
> administrator knew what LMF was or what it did.  VMS went away from
> academia because it was seen as old and not moving forward.  It was
> legacy. (There's that word again!!) It was dropped at the same time
> that other legacy items like COBOL and Fortran and Pascal (and, yes,
> Ada) were left in the dust.
> 
That is not how I experienced it at the Dutch universities. VMS was 
dropped because the new RISC-machines (SUN i.e.) were much much 
cheaper.(Universities never have enough money and computing is normally 
at the "bottom" of the budget).

However Fortran was never abandoned. Here in the physics department, the 
most important applications are written in Fortran, since that language 
is very suitable for heavy calculations on multi-dimensional arrays.

               Jouk