[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lui252$vi3$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> 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.

A good Fortran compiler can write Fortran in any language.  :-)

> 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.

I've never written any kernel-mode code and have no plans to.  The
closest I've come is calling LIB$* (or was it SYS$*) routines to do some
system-near stuff.  It's been a while.

I write a lot of Fortran code (wrote some today), but it is user-mode 
stuff, standard Fortran (so that I can run it elsewhere if I need more 
resources).