[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Dave Froble]

On 7/20/2019 9:39 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>

Without pointers, I'd think not.  Possible, yeah.

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