[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/19/2019 10:54 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 7/19/2019 3:06 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 7/18/19 9:45 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Note that MS supposedly are considering towards Rust:
>>>
>>> https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/18/microsoft_argues_for_memorysafe_languages_hints_at_move_from_c_to_rust 
>>
>> And are all the lemmings supposed to follow them of the edge
>> of the cliff?
> 
> I find the following interesting:
> 
> "Rust is syntactically similar to C++, but it provides increased speed 
> and better memory safety"
> 
> And so I ask, is this just a "newer or better" implementation of C++ but 
> with a new name?
> 
> Might make porting C++ code to the "newer and better" language.

I think that is a rather liberal use of "syntactically similar".

If I look at the examples at:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_(programming_language)#Examples

then I consider it rather different from C++ syntax.

> Now, if these people wanted to do something really good, they could 
> design a new Basic compiler that implemented some of the desired features.
> 
> What's that?  Nobody likes Basic syntax?  Sucks to be you Dave ....

Basic already has a lot of features that makes it better than C for
business applications and worse than C for operating systems.

Arne