From METCALF@crnvma.cern.ch Mon May 18 11:10:40 1992 Received: from danpost2.uni-c.dk by dkuug.dk via EUnet with SMTP (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA05587; Mon, 18 May 92 11:10:40 +0200 Received: from vm.uni-c.dk by danpost2.uni-c.dk (5.65/1.34) id AA18063; Mon, 18 May 92 11:09:22 +0200 Message-Id: <9205180909.AA18063@danpost2.uni-c.dk> Received: from vm.uni-c.dk by vm.uni-c.dk (IBM VM SMTP V2R1) with BSMTP id 0522; Mon, 18 May 92 11:06:21 DNT Received: from CERNVM.cern.ch by vm.uni-c.dk (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id 1978; Mon, 18 May 92 11:06:20 DNT Received: from CERNVM.CERN.CH (METCALF) by CERNVM.cern.ch (Mailer R2.08) with BSMTP id 8097; Mon, 18 May 92 11:10:45 SET Date: Mon, 18 May 92 11:09:20 SET From: Michael Metcalf Subject: DEC's f90 plans To: sc22wg5@dkuug.dk X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 Thought you might be interested in this internet posting. MIke Metcalf Message-ID: <1992May14.144909.21114@e2big.mko.dec.com> Date: 14 May 92 14:49:09 GMT Sender: guest@e2big.mko.dec.com (Guest (DECnet)) Reply-To: lionel@quark.enet.dec.com (Steve Lionel) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Nashua NH Lines: 33 There have been a number of inquiries regarding Digital's plans for a Fortran 90 product. Until recently, we were not prepared to make any comment on the subject, but I've been given the ok to make the following statement on behalf of Digital Product Management. At last week's US DECUS Symposium in Atlanta, Georgia, I gave a presentation on the future directions for Digital's Fortran products. Part of this presentation was a statement that Digital is indeed developing a Fortran 90 compiler product. No dates for availability were discussed. Some of the goals of Digital's Fortran 90 project are: - Full compliance with the Fortran 90 standard - A high degree of compatibility with VAX FORTRAN and DEC Fortran - Integration with Digital's software development tools - High reliability Within a few weeks, Digital sales representatives should have available to them a "Proprietary Information Disclosure" presentation on Digital's Fortran 90 project, which you can then ask for if you need further information. Please don't send me requests for information as there's nothing more that I can tell you at this time. Keep in mind that Fortran 90 is a major new language, and that as it was for Ada, complete production-quality implementations will not appear overnight. -- Steve Lionel lionel@quark.enet.dec.com Languages Group Digital Equipment Corporation 110 Spit Brook Road Nashua, NH 03062