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From: "Keith Willshaw" <keith_willshaw@compuserve.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: F22 completes 11% of its Flight tests]
Date: 2000/01/15
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Bill Greene wrote in message <387FCA73.3A61@Ganymede.com>...
>Ed Falis wrote:
>
>Perhaps he is really complaining about the instruction set of a CPU or
>processor architecture (the VAX), and not about a programming language
>(Ada) at all.  Note his assertion that "VAX" violated some alleged
>design goal of Ada.  Having tried unsuccessfully to discover his meaning
>by direct questions, all I can conclude is that he is blaming the Ada
>programming language (which he apparently thought was designed by DEC)
>for the fact that the VAX is non-compliant with the Data General
>instruction set!
>


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.

My company had to move a lot of this stuff from
VMS to Unix and then NT

The DEC extensions were a major headache

Keith