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From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?
Keywords: FORTRAN PL/I kludge
Message-ID: <76822@sun.uucp>
Date: 9 Nov 88 18:30:12 GMT
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In article <1265@luth.luth.se> Sven-Ove Westberg <sow@cad.luth.se> writes:
>In article <75320@sun.uucp> khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) writes:
>
>|would seem to demonstrate this. Know of a single vendor of high
>|performance computers who doesn't produce a fortran compiler FIRST ?
>
>ALL that don't write the operating system and other utilities in fortran.
>

Many high performance computers have the utilities (and much of the
OS) running on other processors (viz CDC's PP's, Cydrome's IP's,
etc.). Even if something is written for in house use, the first
REALEASED product (with a real optimizer) is usually the FORTRAN compiler.



Keith H. Bierman
It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus