[Info-vax] Which programming language would you like to see officially supported on VMS ?
1tim....@gmail.com
1tim.lovern at gmail.com
Tue Jan 5 11:20:13 EST 2021
On Monday, January 4, 2021 at 6:35:32 AM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-01-02, Dirk Munk <mu... at home.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Pascal is bit problematic. Pascal was never meant for production, it was
> > a language meant for education. But just as with Unix and C, it
> > 'escaped' from the schools and universities to production. Mr. Wirth,
> > the designer of Pascal was not at all pleased with that. He designed the
> > Modula language for production. It has the Pascal syntax, just as the
> > other offspring of Pascal, Ada. So, is Pascal still being used on VMS?
> >
> VAXELN was written in a variant of Pascal.
>
> The Modula variants are effectively dead, while Pascal still has multiple
> active compiler options across a range of operating systems.
> > Ada is a language for very reliable applications, I have always been
> > told. Seems to me as a typical VMS language.
> >
> Yes it is. Unfortunately, no Ada compiler currently exists, or is likely
> to exist, for x86-64 VMS.
> > Other languages? There are more than 11,000 ...... A new language
> > should fit in the VMS environment. I'm sure you can make any script
> > language run on VMS, but does it add something, apart from "look, we can
> > do that too"? It should add to the functionality of VMS, just having it
> > as something that has no real connection to VMS is not useful in my
> > opinion. Why should you write a script language application on VMS, if
> > you can do it on Linux or Windows as well? What does VMS add for such an
> > application?
> >
> Some of those scripting languages (assuming they come with an added VMS
> integration module) are a _far_ better choice for tying together VMS
> applications than DCL is.
>
> Simon.
>
> --
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
TPU uses Pascal syntax and is very Pascal-like in writing section files....I always assumed (yes, I know..) it was pascal under the hood.
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