[Info-vax] And another one bites the dust....

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/17/2022 5:28 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <919fe330-a0dc-4784-bd2e-edea99790dc0n at googlegroups.com>,
> "dthi... at gmail.com" <dthittner at gmail.com> writes:
>> VSI Fortran is pretty much just rebranded HPE Fortran (FORTRAN-95
>> standard, and not a complete implementation of it either). Later FORTRAN
>> standards (2003, 2008, 2108) have fully embraced object oriented code
>> practices and C interoperability.
> 
> Isn't there supposed to be a much more modern, FLANG-based Fortran
> compiler from VSI (presumably only) on x86?
> 
> If so, when?

VSI has stated their intention to go with flang. Which is really saying
that they have no intention of shoehorning the newer Fortran standards
into the old compiler. Which makes sense.

And since it will be LLVM based then it must be x86-64 only.

And they will want all existing compilers plus clang running natively on
VMS x86-64 before they get to flang. Realistically I think it will be
quite some years before it is available.

Just guessing of course.

Arne