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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/12/2019 5:08 PM, Bob Koehler wrote:
> 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.

The question was not who created the languages.

The question was which dialect was considered de facto industry standard.

Arne