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On Friday, June 24, 2016 at 6:40:38 AM UTC+12, David Froble wrote:

> Sometimes some things just don't mix well.  Not sure why I've had such a
> problem with C.  But I do.  I'd have an easier time doing something in
> Macro-32 than C. 

I can guess why this is the case. It’s because VMS system services take so many arguments (e.g. 12 for $QIO, as I recall), so many of which are often (mostly?) defaulted, that you really need the ability to pass arguments by keyword. Which you can do in MACRO, and in VAX PASCAL (what I used to like to use, post-V1), but not in C.