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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/30/16 9:11 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 8:35:51 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
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>> Pascal was a huge teaching language before OOP. Never hit
>> it in business.
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> 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).
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> 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.
>

And people always forget Delphi which is really just Pascal warmed over.

bill