Help us defend against VMS!

William E. Davidsen Jr davidsen at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP
Wed Mar 2 05:25:41 AEST 1988


In article <4080 at megaron.arizona.edu> lm at megaron.arizona.edu (Larry McVoy) writes:
| [...]
| I agree with the rest of the article but this part is not completely
| true.  VMS fortran is the de facto industry standard.  Until I can have
| all the VMS extensions (and there are a lot of very useful ones) this
| argument does not hold water.  Sorry, Barry, but we can't misrepresent

I have played with vcc (VMS C under Ultrix) a little and it seems to be
the smae compiler that we know a love. I have heard rumors about a
similar effort on FORTRAN, but I have no solid information. Does anyone
have at least solid rumors?
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	bill davidsen		(wedu at ge-crd.arpa)
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