Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!mozart!psmith From: psmith@mozart.uucp (Presley Smith) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Two Fortran Standards Message-ID: <1805@convex.UUCP> Date: 19 Sep 89 14:01:32 GMT References: <:> <1073@cernvax.UUCP> <611@mbph.UUCP> Sender: news@convex.UUCP Reply-To: psmith@convex.com (Presley Smith) Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, Tx. Lines: 28 In article <611@mbph.UUCP> hybl@mbph.UUCP (Albert Hybl Dept of Biophysics SM) writes: > >Bill, a panegyrists for F77, refers to it in the singular >as if there weren't thousands of disparate implementations. >Hasn't he noticed that the VAX/VMS compiler already contains >many of the F8x features? Although I don't think much of the >barnacles attached to VMS, I don't see VAX being stoned for >adding the F8x features. Maybe someone would like to enlighten us as to what Fortran 8x features are in the VAX/VMS compilers... Do the VAX/VMS compilers contain: 1. Array notation 2. Interface 3. Overloading 4. Modules 5. Pointers 6. ??? If you count FORTRAN 77 that as contained in 8x, the VAX/VMS compilers certainly contain that. Things like structures are done differently in the VAX/VMS compilers to what the Fortran 8x standard defines for structures... etc. Would someone like to provide some examples of these "many" F8x features?