[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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