[Info-vax] VMS Software Releases Roadmap Updates

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/28/2021 12:23 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <siti4q$1gcs$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 
>> On 9/27/2021 4:28 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <sisoct$1cvl$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> April 2022 - Bliss, Macro, standard C++
>>>> May-November 2022 - Cobol, C, VMS C++
>>>> November-December 2022 - Fortran, Basic, Pascal
>>>
>>> Any information on which version of the standards will be supported?
>>
>> It does not say.
>>
>> But there are no new standard to follow for Basic and Pascal.
>>
>> I doubt Cobol and Fortran will support newer standards.
> 
> The latest Fortran for VMS is Fortran95.  There have been several
> standards since then.

Yes. 2003, 2008 and 2018. But no existing VMS code use those for
obvious reasons.

>> Very few
>> are interested in newer Cobol standards. And I believe the Fortran
>> roadmap is to look at flang later.
> 
> OK; maybe that will improve the situation.

Flang supposedly is 2018.

Arne