[Info-vax] PostgreSQL (Re: open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes))

[David Froble]

Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2013-04-04, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> The same thing happens with C.  I don't know why.  I've tried.  It just 
>> doesn't make sense to me.  I'm not going to blame the language.  I've 
>> never been able to acquire another language besides English either.  I 
>> know I have these problems.  I'm the problem.  Doesn't make it any less 
>> of a problem.
>>
> 
> What (computer) languages do you know ?
> 
> Have you ever tried to learn Pascal or a similar styled language ?
> The way you do things in those languages is rather different from the way
> you do things in C.
> 
> I can and do write code in C and other C style languages just fine; but
> at the same time I do like the language syntax and semantics found in
> languages like Pascal and other Wirth style languages.
> 
> The Wikipedia page in case you are unfamiliar with Pascal:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_%28programming_language%29
> 
> There are some code examples about half way down the page.
> 
> Simon.
> 

I've got a database product written in Macro-32.  Assembly language is 
hard, it requires intense concentration, and frankly, I don't have as 
much of that anymore.

The database is no longer "pure", I had to get Steve to write a UWSS to 
allow normal users access to SYSLCK.  He used C.

I've used:

Macro-32
Macro-10
Cobol (not much)
Fortran (not much)
Basic Plus
Basic Plus 2
VAX Basic
DEC Basic

Since people have been proclaiming the benefits of various languages, 
aside from re-entrant, threads, and running on nothing but VMS, I think 
it would be rather hard to suggest something i could not do well and 
quickly in DEC BASIC.  No, I would never use it for an OS.  It's a good 
application language.  Languages got to know their limitations ....

:-)