[Info-vax] RMS record metadata, was: Re: Re; Spiralog, RMS Journaling (was

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-06-22, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
> On 2016-06-22, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2016-06-21, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> John Reagan wrote:
>>>> RMS wins the trifecta of languages. You'll find Macro, BLISS, and C
>>>> in the source directory.
>>>
>>> WHAT !!!
>>>
>>> No Basic ???
>>
>> Sorry David, but Basic is not a system implementation/programming
>> language. :-)
>>
>
> My memories of RSTS suggest that BASIC got used *everywhere*... :-)
>

That's only for the stuff which ran in process context such as the
CUSPs. The true test of whether something is a system implementation
language is if it can be used to write kernel mode code and if it
can also implement that code efficiently.

All versions of Basic I've come across fail that test big time.

Simon.

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