[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

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.

Arne