[Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re: improving EDT

[David Froble]

John Reagan wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 8:35:51 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>> Pascal was a huge teaching language before OOP. Never hit
>> it in business.
>>
> 
> Not true on OpenVMS.  Our Pascal has lots of useful extensions (but not OOP) that made it popular with many customers.  I can easily name several customers today with at least 10 million lines of Pascal code.  I gotta worry about them too just like all the BASIC customers (and I know several customers with millions of lines of BASIC).
> 
> When I gave my "elevator speech" at the LLVM conference about hooking our frontends to LLVM, I get the most shock at the mention of actually having a working BASIC compiler that is used for actual production code.

Perhaps if such people actually saw the capabilities in VAX/DEC/??? Basic, they 
would not be so surprised.

Yeah, Basic seems to make much use of calling RTL stuff, and as such isn't 
suited for system programming, but, for other stuff, it's quite good.

Have you yet addressed that routine return fiasco ???