[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/18/2022 2:16 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-07-16, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> VMS Fortran and VMS C++ does not support newer standards - but those
>> newer standards are used on other platforms.
> 
> Devil's Advocate time: Does adding new standards to a language sometimes
> make it so complex that it's better to start over with a new language
> that covers the same usage cases ?

I think so.

But probably not in the case of Fortran 95 -> 2003 and
C++ 98 -> 11.

(Fortran 77 -> 90 could have been a case)

>> VMS Pascal and VMS Basic are very much VMS specific languages, but
>> no dramatic changes the last 25 years.
>>
>> VMS C is the only "hot topic" due to the C99 features phase in,
>> the 32 bit vs 64 bit pointers issue etc..
> 
> 32-bit versus 64-bit pointers on VMS are not just a C issue. :-)

No.

But there are not that many languages that support both.

And I do not remember ever seeing a question about the
different pointer sizes in Fortran.

:-)

Arne