[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-31, seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 1:12:16 PM UTC-6, Simon Clubley wrote:
>
>> 
>> Would you write a safety critical system in Basic ?
>> 
>
> VAX BASIC on an Alpha, yes. Hell, there were many stock exchanges around the world which ran their trading floor applications on DEC BASIC.
>

That isn't safety critical to me but is instead just mission critical.

Safety critical for me (for example) is when people die when things
go wrong.

Simon.

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