[Info-vax] How Do You Define Record (Data Structure) Dummy Arguments in

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/19/19 5:18 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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 ?
> 

I'm pretty sure CSRG was not free.  Just a real good deal.

bill