[Info-vax] completion status from LIB$SPAWN
glen herrmannsfeldt
gah at ugcs.caltech.edu
Sun Apr 29 10:09:41 EDT 2012
Paul Sture <paul at sture.ch> wrote:
(snip)
> There's also the history of compilers to consider. In my experience many
> commercial users (as opposed to scientific or academic users) who came to
> VAX/VMS in the early 1980s fell into 2 main camps:
> a) those who came from PDPs or other minis where BASIC was very popular
> b) those who came from more traditional mainframes where COBOL was
> pretty much king for business applications (IBM also had PL/I users
> in this sector).
And scientific users, mostly using Fortran.
-- glen
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