[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/24/2018 8:23 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

>>> 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...

Newer Basic implementations are actually not bad.

Not as safe as Ada (or going even further with SPARK).

But at least as safe as many very popular languages
of today.

Arne