Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: What is the FORTRAN for ? Message-ID: <+=B5:+6@xds13.ferranti.com> Date: 20 Aug 90 16:17:03 GMT References: <60202@lanl.gov> <13035@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1990Aug16.150718.15055@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 9 In article <1990Aug16.150718.15055@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) writes: > I would require that ANY language be compatible with the vendor's > standard calling convention - at least with a command-line switch. > Where the vendor's conventions is abysmally slow (i.e. VMS) I > would have an optional faster one. What if the vendor didn't ship any compiler product or linkable files until after a second party had finished their implementation (using cross-compilers from another machines)? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com (currently not working) peter@hackercorp.com