Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]

["Marin D. Condic" <mcondic-nospam@quadruscorp.com>]

Keith Willshaw wrote:
> 
> More liley its DEC's own compiler he's complaing
> about. Their Fortran compilers had lots of extensions
> that were far from ANSI standard Fortran.
> 
But DEC's Ada compiler was validated and, in my experience, very
portable. You had to stay away from Starlet and other similar compiler
provided packages if you wanted to port, but if you did so, the port was
usually just a matter of recompilation. DEC had one of the better Ada
compilers out there and I am unaware of any extensions to the syntax of
the language within their compiler.

DEC's Fortran compilers often had language extensions (anybody remember
Fortran-10 for the DECSystem 10?) which enabled them to utilize system
dependent features and I know that porting their Fortran somewhere else
could be painful. But I don't recall that they ever did anything similar
with Ada.

MDC
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