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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/7/2019 10:16 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.

Maybe I am not old enough.

:-)

 From later half of 1980's then Basic seemed mostly the MS flavors
(QuickBasic, Visual Basic).

Arne