[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <61f81e10$0$706$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> But Fortran 77 to 90 was more than the typical version change. I think
> it could have justified a name change.

Considering that essentially all of Fortran 77 works in Fortran 90, then 
a name change would be bad.  I've heard about other new, popular 
languages which don't respect backward compatibility.  :-)