[TUHS] DEC compilers (was Happy birthday, John Backus!)

[Paul Winalski]

On 12/5/18, Arrigo Triulzi <arrigo at alchemistowl.org> wrote:
>
> I was wondering if anyone remembers the HPF compiler and the “pangolin”
> parallel debugger which I used around 1994 on an Alpha farm connected with
> FDDI.
>
IIRC the DEC HPF compiler used the COMPASS Fortran 90 parser and front
end with GEM as the back end.  That product lives on as the Intel
Fortran compiler, but with Intel's back end instead of GEM.

-Paul W.