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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/22/2020 10:02 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> Like with COBOL and a number of other legacy languages my objection
> is when they totally change the language and still have the nerve to
> call it what it was.  Like calling "DELPHI" "Pascal" or calling "ANSI
> C" "C".  If you want a new language then give it a new name and stop
> pretending it's something it is not.

It must depend on how big the change is.

I don't see K&R -> C89 as being a change that justfies
a name change.

Fortran 77 to 90 could have justified a name change IMHO.

Delphi is Object Pascal. Apple could have chosen a different
name, but they did not. I do not see why Borland should not
call Delphi for Object Pascal given the Apple
decision.

Arne