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From: kuo@skatter.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: dsb unix vs. dec's vms
Message-ID: <323@skatter.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 17:44:06 EDT
Article-I.D.: skatter.323
Posted: Sun Jun  7 17:44:06 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jun-87 07:16:16 EDT
References: <448@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Organization: Accelerator Lab, Saskatoon, Sask.
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In article <448@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>, iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian W Moor) writes:
> [deleted]
>
> Judging by programs submitted to DECUS and comp.os.vms the prime language
> seems to be Fortran, though DEC Fortran has enough extensions to make it 
                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> useable :- IF THEN ELSE ENDIF, record structures ... 
             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> If you mean the implementation language for VMS, most of it is BLISS, which
> is about the same level as C though the code that is generated is better.
> 
> [deleted]

Allow me to point out these (underlined with ^^) are ANSI FORTRAN 77 standards,
not DEC VMS FORTRAN extensions! And rumours has it that the new ANSI FORTRAN
80X (88?) will make MOST of the VMS FORTRAN "extensions" ANSI standard, plus
other goodies (esp. in vector operations and recurrusiveness).

... Peter/
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