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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/30/2016 9:11 AM, 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.

There were and probably still are some VMS customers using Pascal.

There were and are still some Windows customers using Delphi.

But it never got as popular as COBOL, FORTRAN, C, PL/I, ADA etc.
out in businesses.

Arne