[Info-vax] Which programming language would you like to see officially supported on VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/5/2021 11:20 AM, 1tim.... at gmail.com wrote:
> 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.

There is "Pascal family" : Algol, Pascal, Modula-2, Oberon, Ada etc..

There is "C family" : C, C++, Java, C#, JavaScript, Scala, Kotlin,
Groovy, PHP, Swift etc..

Today "C family" is dominant. It is expected that a new language
use C style.

But the world was different when TPU was created. Back then
using Pascal style syntax was main stream.

So I don't think you should conclude much from TPU being
Pascal like. That was a rather natural choice in mid 80's
when TPU was created.

Arne