[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-24, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 1/24/2018 4:23 PM, DaveFroble wrote:
>> Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> Would you write a safety critical system in Basic ?
>> 
>> DEC Basic?  Absolutely.
>> 
>> Keep in mind, any language "could" have problems.  I've seen a few 
>> issues thru the years, but, VAX/DEC/Compaq/HP Basic is pretty bullet proof.
>> 

Learn Ada sometime. :-)

>> Perhaps the result of not getting "change of the month" stuff?
>> 
>> Then there is the details of just what is a "safety critical system".
>
> My guess is that Simon were:
> * not talking about bugs in compiler/RTL but about the languages
>    ability to prevent programming errors
> * assuming "safety critical" as "a programming bug may cause somebody
>    to die"
>

Exactly. I wouldn't exactly be impressed if I discovered that people
were writing control systems for aircraft in Basic...

Simon.

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