[Info-vax] Some questions on software for VMS 7.3 VAX

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On Fri, 01 Jan 2016 01:10:24 -0500
David Froble via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> > Thanks for the info. I'm finding VMS altogether more pleasant to work on
> > than Linux but I'm missing a few key pieces partly because I don't have
> > real VMS hardware and partly because of lack of software I want.
> > 
> 
> Use Basic.  You'll like it better.  It's available.  What more could you
> want?

Fortran, Ada, and maybe Pascal are more to my liking. And especially
assembler if I like the architecture and assembler implementation.

I know you're a BASIC bigot and I can respect that. Especially in VMS where
it seems it is an oustanding implementation. Plus the fact the VMS runtime
is available to all languages- really a smart way to do things. But still,
BASIC is not my kind of language.

BTW is the BASIC on VAX/VMS a true compiler or is it interpreted?

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