[Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS X86 platform

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/15/2020 10:24 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/15/20 9:51 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 12/15/2020 9:24 AM, Michael C wrote:
>>> BUT DIBOL IS WAY BETTER THAN THAT C THING EVERYONE THINKS IS A 
>>> LANGUAGE IS USING
>>
>> That may depend on whether you are writing an OS or a business
>> application.
>>
>> :-)
> 
> A profound statement.  I honestly think the biggest problem
> with the introduction of C was it led to a move away from
> Domain Specific Languages and toward general purpose languages
> being used for everything.

Yep.

But luckily that idea was dropped again a couple
of decades ago.

Arne