[Info-vax] C99 stuff (Re: The Road to V9.0)

[Dave Froble]

On 6/7/2019 8:05 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/7/2019 3:17 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>> Back in the day, DEC's compilers were widely recognized as the  best,
>> and in many cases were the de-facto industry standard.
>
> Were there anything but Fortran that was DEC?
>
> As I remember it then PL/I and Cobol were IBM, C were Unix,
> Pascal was Apple and Borland and Basic was Microsoft.

Uh, ... NO!

Basic Plus was written originally, I believe, by a guy at EG&H, the "H" 
part of that company.  Early 1970s I believe.  Way before there was a 
Microsoft.

Basic+
BP2
VAX Basic
DEC Basic

The same product, with constant improvement and ports.

For many years the "gold standard" for Basic.

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