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In article <6708311d-52a3-40c9-a2ca-b55e8133105d at googlegroups.com>, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com writes:
>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.=20
>
>I can guess why this is the case. It=E2=80=99s because VMS system services =
>take so many arguments (e.g. 12 for $QIO, as I recall), so many of which ar=
>e often (mostly?) defaulted, that you really need the ability to pass argum=
>ents 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.

$QIO and other system services and VMS RTL utilities are easier in Macro because of
macros.  If C had a decent macro, you wouldn't be complaining here now.
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