[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <dh3udb-cop1.ln1 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> >>>> 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.
> > 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.

While that might be the case, I don't think there is any inherent reason
why Fortran could not be used for system programming on VMS, at least
with VMS-specific extensions (which applies to the other languages as
well).  One of the strengths of VMS is that many languages are treated
on an equal footing.  Apart from C, Bliss and Macro32, IIRC there is 
some Pascal, some PL/I and so on.