[J3] hardware-independent Fortran compilers, was RE: [EXTERNAL] Re: [BULK] Re: Niklaus Wirth

[Jeff Hammond]

Yes, you’re right, and I knew it.  I mixed in the zero-cost dimension without writing it.

Jeff

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Jeff Hammond wrote:
> Only gfortran, PGI+OldFlang and NewFlang are potentially hardware-independent.

I was going to let this go, but NAG Fortran has been available on multiple platforms, e.g. VAX/VMS, OS/390, Apollo Domain,  to name three very different ones, so is not only potentially hardware-independent, but has been ported to many platforms over the years.

There has, of course, been massive consolidation in the hardware space. Some of that consolidation has been good.

Cheers,
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..............Malcolm Cohen, NAG Oxford/Tokyo.
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