[Info-vax] FORTRAN use, was: Re: Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <haqahp$6rp$1 at news.eternal-september.org>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
> I think the use of FORTRAN, regardless of platform, must have been a
> custom/tradition at one time.

   IT was a customer requirement at one time.  Everything to be written
   in Fortran, unless it absolutely can't be.  In that case, assembler
   was OK.

   Fortran was the mother lanuage, and the universal language.