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

[Jonathan]

On Thursday, December 19, 2019 at 7:28:34 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/19/2019 9:47 AM, John Reagan wrote:
> > VAX Pascal V2 had an extensive set of language extensions compared to
> > standard Wirth Pascal (aka ISO 7185).  You can actually write
> > medium/large scale applications using the VAX Pascal V2 extensions.
> > I know of several customers with Pascal applications in the
> > 10s-of-millions of lines.  VSI has active Pascal customers (I'm
> > actually answering a technical question submitted to our support
> > organization in another window...)
> It was a good choice.
> 
> Lots of students was taught Pascal back then.
> 
> Pascal is way more modern than Cobol, Fortran and Basic.

I don't think Pascal circa 1975 was more modern than VAX Basic circa 1985.  Of course the last time I wrote much Pascal code was about 1975 (using the Wirth CDC compiler :)

> 
> Pascal is high level and well structured, which make
> it much more suitable for business applications than C.
> 
> And back then there were not a "C mono culture" for
> low level code.
> 
> Arne