[Info-vax] How Do You Define Record (Data Structure) Dummy Arguments in
Simon Clubley
clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Thu Dec 19 05:18:40 EST 2019
On 2019-12-18, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 18, 2019 at 4:58:28 PM UTC-5, sector... at gmail.com wrote:
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>> DEC of course, included RDML and SQL preprocessors - and I think the PASCAL compiler was free - which I'm sure helped.
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>> It?s also amazing how many serious applications (world-wide) are still written in FORTRAN ? obviously control systems, but also some very well-known financial application. FORTRAN was also a free VAX language which I?m sure added to its popularity in the financial arena.
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> None of the compilers were ever free. Discounted deeply? Perhaps. But never free.
Was it free if you were on the licences that DEC provided to a University
for academic only use ?
Simon.
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