[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 7/19/2019 11:22 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/19/2019 10:54 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> However, that quote came from that wiki page ....

True.

But when I look at the code I don't see it.

Unless they consider curly brackets sufficient to be "syntactically 
similar".

>>> 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.
> 
> Just what in the Basic language, as implemented in VAX/DEC Basic is 
> worse for OS work?

You have the advantage of knowing VMS Basic a lot better than me.

Would VMS Basic be a good language for traversing S0 structures?

Arne