[Info-vax] completion status from LIB$SPAWN
Richard B. Gilbert
rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sat Apr 28 20:25:40 EDT 2012
On 4/28/2012 7:27 PM, Howard S Shubs wrote:
> In article<jnfi66$fsr$1 at dont-email.me>,
> David Froble<davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
>> I know I'm biased, and so is everyone else in favor of what they're used to,
>> but I find
>> Basic to be more understandable than anything else, most likely because
>> English is my only
>> language.
>
> Nonono, BASIC is just wrong. Kinda like using Pascal for anything
> serious. Fortran is where it's at.
>
No!!!!!!! Real men code in Macro-32! Sometimes it's necessary.
Once upon a time you had to write device drivers in Macro-32.
Some years later it became possible to write a driver in C. To write
a successful driver in either language requires that you know how the
device works.
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