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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-12-19, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 12/19/2019 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:
>>>> DEC of course, included RDML and SQL preprocessors - and I think the PASCAL compiler was free - which I'm sure helped.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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 ?
>
> Universities paid.
>

My mistake, sorry. For some reason I thought they were a free offering
because I had thought they were regarded by DEC as promotimg VMS to
future employees.

> If my memory serves me right then back in the 1980's it was in the 
> magnitude of 50 K$ per compiler, but in the 1990's some educational
> programs significantly reduced the cost.
>

There's no way you could charge _that_ kind of money these days for
a University based program. :-)

Simon.

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