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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <9742@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 19:25:41 GMT
References: <1636@tulum.UUCP> <20268@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4080@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <4080@megaron.arizona.edu> lm@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@ge-crd.arpa)
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