Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ubvax!ames!lamaster
From: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Hugh LaMaster)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: WG-5 ultimatum, is a FIPS standard uninteresting?
Keywords: FIPS,Ada
Message-ID: <16015@ames.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 5 Oct 88 14:42:04 GMT
References: <838@cernvax.UUCP> <44400024@hcx2> <140@microsoft.UUCP>
Reply-To: lamaster@ames.arc.nasa.gov.UUCP (Hugh LaMaster)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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In article <140@microsoft.UUCP> bobal@microsoft.UUCP (Bob Allison (uunet!microsoft!bobal)) writes:

>do we expect new contracts with the U.S. Government to require a FIPS
>Fortran compiler less and less often (and consequently an Ada standard
>more often)?  Under what time scale?  Is it already happening?  Are people

I expect that for procurements of embedded systems, and some realtime
systems used primarily for data acquisition and/or control, Fortran may indeed
be on the way out.  For procurements of machines used for numerical
analysis, or data reduction, Fortran will continue to be required.

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  Hugh LaMaster, m/s 233-9,  UUCP ames!lamaster
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