[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[David Froble]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2012-08-24 18:23, David Froble wrote:
>> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> But we should probably take this offline. Feel free to send me some
>>> code samples written in C, that you have, and I'll be happy to point
>>> out bugs to you. :-D Or else retract my claim here. ;-)
>>
>> Well, there is the answer.  I wouldn't expect anyone to be able to use
>> "C" and not have coding errors.
> 
> What would be your language of choice then? I'm fairly proficient in a 
> whole bunch. It's just that C most often one that comes up...
> 
>     Johnny
> 

On VMS I use DEC Basic.  (Now you understand why other OS cannot help me.)

When required, I can use other languages.  My current database product 
is implemented almost exclusively in Macro-32.  Even have some (hock, 
spit) C routines.

As a disclaimer, would DEC Basic be able to do some of the device 
control and other stuff some people do?  I don't know, but I seriously 
doubt it.

For commercial business systems, I have yet to run into anything that I 
cannot do with DEC Basic, and usually it is the best and easiest solution.