[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[David Wade]

On 31/01/2018 23:45, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 1:43:51 PM UTC-6, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/24/2018 1:59 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>      It is always a bad idea to bet on non-standard features in
>>> any language.  It is one of the reasons Pascal languished outside
>>> of academia (which is where it was designed for, not to teach a
>>> language but to teach concepts.)
>>
>> Really?
>>
>> The by far largest Pascal code base must have been
>> TurboPascal & Delphi on PC.
>>
>> And that code was typical replaced with C++ code
>> using lots of OLE, COM, MFC and ATL.
>>
>> That type of C++ is not more portable than
>> Pascal.
>>
> 
> Well, "must have been" would be the operative phrase. I went to college with people who temporarily got jobs as Pascal programmers using Turbo. Some used Delphi. Borland is no more. Well, it is owned in name by MicroFocus. I recognize nothing in this link which was a Borland product back in the day.
> 
> https://www.microfocus.com/borland/?utm_medium=301&utm_source=borland.com
> 
> I don't know of any PRODUCTION systems which were ever written in Turbo anything. That was for PC weenies trying to get rich via shareware.
> 
> The only commercial product I know of written in Pascal was a word processor for VMS. I met the woman in charge of the developers one day at DEC's Elk Grove Village office. She told me how difficult it was to hire Pascal programmers who actually knew Pascal instead of Turbo.
> 
> Of the token few systems written in Turbo Pascal I knew about used to run desk drawer jobs, none were ever rewritten. When DOS died, they died.
> 

One of the TCP/IP stacks for VM/CMS on IBM/370 was written in Pascal. Of 
course it was written by a University.. But it was widely used..

Dave