[Info-vax] Greg Kroah-Hartman on backwards compatibility

Craig A. Berry craigberry at nospam.mac.com
Tue Dec 1 10:57:41 EST 2020


On 12/1/20 9:39 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/1/2020 10:03 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

>> Put differently, BASIC and C and such could be staggeringly better 
>> than now, and OpenVMS itself much easier to work with, and so much 
>> more than what inflexible APIs including $qio will permit.
> 
> Basic and Pascal are obvious languages to utilize higher level API's.
> 
> I do not see C in that role.

I think he just means you could replace C with Objective C (or C#) and
not have to worry so much about stomping on pointers and explicit memory
handling.



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