pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) (03/03/88)
> | 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
decot@hpisod2.HP.COM (Dave Decot) (03/05/88)
> > VMS ADVANTAGES: > ... > > - VMS documentation blows UNIX documentation out of the water > > Huh?! VMS is VERY poorly documented if you want to do anything non-trivial. > They tend to only cover the obvious cases, and leave you to guess at the > complex cases. All sorts of things are hidden or undocumented. VMS documentation is often "understandable", but UNIX documentation is ordinarily much more complete and accurate. Also, HP Fortran on HP-UX 2.0 has many of the popular VMS Fortran features. Dave