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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-18, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> In article <620e5870$0$701$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>>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.
>
> Not really. The old DEC GEM compilers were super cool.
>

And GEM was unfortunately the only part of MICA to survive.

However, times move on and the VMS language support is massively behind
the times these days. By moving to LLVM, VSI gets the best of both
worlds, with the GEM to LLVM interface to support the existing GEM
compiler frontends and VMS also gets access to the native LLVM frontends
(clang, etc).

Moving to LLVM is the logical thing for VSI to do.

Simon.

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