[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/2/2018 4:20 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>  Since that's The Old Way, and not these fancy 3GL compiler thingies.  
>> Assembler code is far more efficient and better.  BETTER!  Or so I was 
>> told, by the folks that preferred assembler to 3GLs.  Or that were on 
>> a tear about memory usage in new apps, when the available memory 
>> hardware and addressing was increasing.  Etc.
> 
> Could go back to jumpers on boards.  No, not that either.
> 
> But I will say, if my options were Macro-32 or PHP, it might be a tough 
> choice.

Well. LOC/FP is not an exact science, but typical numbers found are:

Macro assembler - 200-300
Basic - 60-120
PHP - 50-75

It may mean something.

Arne