Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!hc!lanl!jlg
From: jlg@lanl.gov (Jim Giles)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: f8x impact on debugging (was: Re: y
Message-ID: <12645@lanl.gov>
Date: 25 Apr 89 18:57:19 GMT
References: <44400039@hcx2>
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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From article <44400039@hcx2>, by bill@hcx2.SSD.HARRIS.COM:
>> It has been my experience, though, that adding new features doesn't prevent
>> vendors from improving the Fortran compiler in other ways - it prevents
>> them from spending time implementing other languages.  
> 
> What other languages?  :-) I don't know about your vendor, but we don't
> implement a new language every day.  We're too busy keeping up with the
> ones we have!

Well, Cray has been spending _a_lot_ of time and resources on C and Pascal
lately.  The only change in Fortran has been to rewrite the compiler in
Pascal - it now runs _MUCH_ slower and produces code that is about the
same or (perhaps) _marginally_ faster.  I'm sure they could have done
better on the new Fortran if they hadn't wasted so much on C et. al..



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