[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-07, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>
> But then this smells rather like the classic "technically feasible" 
> versus "prudent investment of time and effort and budget" discussion 
> trap, too.   Sure, inner-mode Fortran is technically feasible.  But who 
> would use it, how much would they pay for this, and why don't we 
> implement kernel-mode COBOL while we're at it?   Does VSI have other 
> work that'll be higher on the schedule?
>
>

$ set response/mode=good_natured

"kernel-mode COBOL" ??

Oh come on Hoff, you are not expanding your horizons far enough. :-)

What we _really_ need is a COBOL cross compiler targetting bare metal
platforms so we can write all our industrial bare metal real time
applications in COBOL.

Phillip: the serious point here is that while you can make many
languages do whatever you want with either enough effort or a unique
implementation of a compiler for that language (this latter option
would be required here), each language has it's own range of target
applications.

Even back when I was using FORTRAN for system monitoring applications
in my school days, I knew enough even then to realise I would _never_
have dreamed of writing kernel mode code using it.

Simon.

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