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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rt2b7r$e2e$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> 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..

Is Fortran the grandfather of those?

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

The bastards.  :-)

> 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.

A good Fortran programmer can write Fortran in any language.  :-)