[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-24, DaveFroble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> John Reagan wrote:
>> 
>> There is a new Fortran frontend for LLVM named 'flang'.  
>> 
>> https://github.com/flang-compiler/flang
>> 

That was one I didn't know about, thanks.

>
> John, you know a bit about languages.  Let me ask a question.
>
> I'll preface the question by admitting that I view much of the "new languages" 
> as some people who just want to "re-invent the wheel".
>
> Do the "new languages" actually present more and better capabilities?
>

Would you write a safety critical system in Basic ?

Simon.

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