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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: VMS Fortran on Ultrix ( was Re: Help us defend against VMS!)
Message-ID: <524@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 88 06:54:20 GMT
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> | 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?
> -- 
> 	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)

  VMS Fortran has been available for Ultrix (at extra cost) for apx. 18 months.
  I had it used for the conversion of a large program (from a DEC-20). Overall:

  The resulting executable crunches much faster than f77;
  It requires a prorietary DEC 'language' to interface VMS Fortran modules to 
  other languages;
  The result appears to be totally non-portable;
  We encountered some highly "unique" bugs.

    greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny