[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-06, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
> On 2014-09-06 20:20:33 +0000, wendellxe at yahoo.com said:
>
>> I never saw Fortran used for systems programming before.
>
> Fortran is not used for system programming on VMS.   It's an 
> application-programming language.
>
> C, Bliss and Macro32 assembler are most commonly used for system-level 
> programming on VMS.

Since I just stated in another post that Fortan was the first HLL language
available for VAX/VMS, was Bliss available to the public before it
appeared on the Freeware CDs?

In my experience Fortran was used for system programming in customer land
before C came along, though the tendency was just to head straight for
Macro for many projects.

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