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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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Marin D. Condic wrote in message <3880CCC7.261957BC@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.
>

OK I don't know ADA so can't comment.

>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.
>


Fair enough its just having been bitten by DEC Fortran
I tend to be a little suspicious of VAX developed software.

Keith