[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2014-09-07 00:34:26 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> 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?

DEC was selling Bliss early on, or at least trying to.

Then wasn't LJK looking for Bliss to be made more widely available, 
which culminated in its inclusion on the Freeware?

> 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.

I'm using "system programming" to refer to "operating system 
programming", as differentiated from application systems.  That is, I'm 
referring to the languages used for OpenVMS device drivers, kernel-mode 
code, and related programs.


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