[Info-vax] Learning VMS application programming

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-09-06 22:55, Stephen Hoffman 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.

Hoff, I think he might have meant it in the sense that you write 
programs in FORTRAN that do various system calls directly, thus "system 
programming". Not that VMS itself, or CUSPs were written in FORTRAN.

And yes, you can certanly use FORTRAN just as well as C to write odd 
programs that use all kind of services. They are both programming 
languages. There is really not that much difference between them, except 
for long time Unix programmers, who start thinking that C have some 
special status with regards to writing systems programs. :-)

	Johnny

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