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From: urjlew@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Rostyk Lewyckyj)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Proprietary lock-in of customers (was: Why have FORTRAN 8x at all?)
Summary: But is it everybody else or DEC?
Message-ID: <5814@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 11 Nov 88 22:10:25 GMT
References: <388@ubbpc.UUCP> <44400030@hcx2> <397@ubbpc.UUCP>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Mr. William G. Hutchison <wgh@ubbpc.uucp> of UNYSIS is trying to argue
that the difficulty everyone has in converting to the DEC system is
indicative that all these companies have somehow nonstandard versions
of Fortran. However Since all these dificulties are with DEC rather
than with each other, perhaps, just perhaps, it is DEC which is non
standard. 
Or is it that DEC is the industry standard by definition :-)
Actually at the system interfacing level probably all systems are
different from each other. After all there are many things that a
program uses and in how it behaves that are not covered by anything
in the standard. E.g. error handling, access to system facilities.
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