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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <qdeu54$73b$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
> 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?

   Huh?  IBM Waterloo created FORTRAN.  BY the 1980s, VAX Fortran was the
   defacto industry standard for Fortran.

> As I remember it then PL/I and Cobol were IBM, C were Unix,
> Pascal was Apple and Borland and Basic was Microsoft.

   C predates UNIX.  Pascal predates Apple.  BASIC very much predates
   Microsoft.