[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Craig A. Berry]

On 7/20/19 8:22 AM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 7/20/2019 8:40 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
>  > On 7/19/2019 11:22 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
>  >> 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?
> 
> The lack of a native pointer type and the lack of unsigned integers.

Unless I misremember, I think it's also not thread-safe, making it less
than ideal for system programming.