[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/19/2018 7:40 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> Ada95 is a much bigger language than Ada83.
> 
> And Ada83 was enormous.
> We had a Data General at gatech which could handle about 50 simultaneous
> Pascal compiles, or one Ada compile.
> 
>> And as with other language that got redesigned then
>> I believe that such a redesign is not as clean as it
>> would have been if it had been done so from the beginning.
> 
> It was the PL/1 of the 1980s.  So big that everyone programmed in a
> subset and so nobody could read anyone else's code...

Ada, PL/I, C++, Scala are all what I consider complex
languages.

Cobol, Basic, Fortran (at least pre-90), Java (at least pre-1.5)
are simpler languages.

Arne