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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/5/2021 2:44 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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?

I would say no.

ALGOL is almost as old as Fortran.

And Fortran pre-77 is pretty different from them.

>> 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.  :-)

Yep.

:-)

Arne