[Info-vax] Any Way to Pass Arrays of Strings from C to Basic?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/6/2019 11:51 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/6/2019 7:38 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
>> On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at 4:38:48 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> Better still, expunge the BASIC code entirely, if the folks working 
>>> here are not familiar with mixed-language programming on OpenVMS.  Or 
>>> wrap the BASIC code in something more easily callable.  These 
>>> approaches were mentioned last time too, but I don't recall seeing a 
>>> reply.
>>
>> The core business system is in BASIC. It's also the profit center of 
>> the company.
> 
> Ayep!  Transcomm Data System's TOLAS software.
> 
> Which then causes me to wonder why there is any C code in use?

I don't know anything about that company, but if I were to guess then
I would say that it could be like:
* they don't have any VMS Basic developers
* they have C developers
* management decided due to above to write new code in C instead of VMS 
Basic
* now they are realizing that they don't have C developers that know how 
to call VMS Basic from C

:-)

Arne