[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 Roger Ivie <rivie at ridgenet.net> writes:
>On 2009-10-08, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>> It was  Fortran IV on a Univac 1100 running Exec-8.  Of
>> course, the programs in question were also proof that it is not
>> only C that gets used for the wrong purposes.  These were business
>> applications written in Fortran by engineers who needed something
>> to doto keep them busy during slow summers. 
>
>A friend of mine wrote a compiler in Microsoft's FORTRAN for CP/M.

once vax fortran had been ported to native mode, it became my
scripting language of choice, for our vms systems.

of course, what i wrote wasn't much like the fortran i learned as a
student in the 60s.  (fortran on the titan was a laugh a minute, when
we were debugging the compiler [which had actually been written for
our course].)
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge