BTW:  this attitude was nothing new.  I've said it before, the greatest piece of marketing DEC ever did was convince the world that VMS Fortran was Fortran-77.  It was not close.   And when you walked into most people writing real production code (in Fortran of course), you discovered they had used all of the VMS Fortran extensions.   When the UNIX folks arrived on the scene the f77 in Seventh Edition was not good enough.  You saw first Masscomp in '85, then a year later Apollo and 2 years after that, Sun develop really, really good Fortran's -- all that were VMS Fortran compatible.