[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 14:18:19 EST 2018


On 01/24/2018 02:12 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

That would depend on the needed functionality and the version of
BASIC.  There are BASIC's that run on micro-controller bare metal
that are more than capable of doing it.  Would I run a Nuclear
Power Plant on VB?  Not likely.   The only thing to do in any case
  is to look at the task, look at the tools available and make the
proper choice.

bill





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