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

[1tim....@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 5, 2021 at 11:30:28 AM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

I never really gave it any thought, other than when I was writing a section file for my employer at that time, that it felt like Pascal. Never looked under the hood or paid it any more attention than that. It makes sense to be written in Bliss. It does do some really clever stuff, and for the most part is very well designed.