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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-01-01 09:27, lists at openmailbox.org wrote:
> 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?

It's a compiler.
Outside of VAX, you can't even run in immediate mode.

	Johnny

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