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Is it merely nostalgia that I miss the VAX FORTRAN compiler and its
descendants, particularly the VMS Fortran 90/95 compilers for ALPHA?
(Ownership has changed from DEC to Compaq (which, as a company, no
longer exists, so it shouldn't be in the table) to HP, with the current
compiler coming from Intel (by a rather complicated route), where it is
produced by many of the folks who used to work at DEC.)
I realise that, sic transit gloria mundi, DEC's star has fallen in the
world of academia. (Outside of academia, VMS is alive and well and
paying my salary, though admittedly this is mostly a non-Fortran world
(though COBOL is very much alive).) On the other hand, it is still
available and even at a reasonable cost to anyone in academia who is
interested, and its lack in a table such as the above will only
encourage the trend of its neglect. I don't know what the situation is
today, but when my main job was in academia, I had several students ask
for an account on my (privately owned) VMS machine, since the compilers
were better than what they were provided with.
I don't know what the status of the Fortran compiler on Itanium and/or
later than Fortran 95 is. (The two might be related, similar to the
situation where Fortran 90 and 95 are non-VAX.)
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