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From: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
Message-ID: <2739@encore.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 88 19:53:24 GMT
References: <1636@tulum.UUCP> <20268@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <4080@megaron.arizona.edu>
Reply-To: paradis@encore.UUCP (Jim Paradis)
Organization: The Whizzo Chocolate Company
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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.
>
>I really feel sort of gross sticking up for VMS but this is one place
>that it shines, and fair is fair.

Well, I know of at least one company that produces a VMS-Fortran package for
UNIX.  In fact, it even comes with a DCL-like command interpreter and (I think)
an EDT-like editor.  The name slips my mind right now, but I'll see if I can
dig up a reference...


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