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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 8/11/21 6:44 AM, Joukj wrote:
> 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).

That was my point.  It had nothing to do with LMF or what anyone thought
of it.

> 
> 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.

Yes, but does your Computer Science Department still teach it or are
the engineering students learning it on their own or through the
engineering department?

bill