[Info-vax] Safer programming languages (and walking :-) ), was: Re: 8-bit characters

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-11-14, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 11/14/2021 11:10 AM, John Reagan wrote:
>> On Friday, November 12, 2021 at 1:28:38 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> On 2021-11-11, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST... at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>>>> On 11/11/2021 4:01 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>>> On 11/11/2021 3:57 PM, Michael Moroney wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> You remember correctly. The hardwired '24 line terminal' assumption pissed me
>>>>>> off and a few times I looked at it I said no way I can fix that spaghetti
>>>>>> code. But one day the planets were aligned or something, and I just did it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Macro-32 ?
>>>>
>>>> BLISS-32
>>>>
>>> Same difference. :-)
>>>
>>> On a more serious note, BLISS-32 was a nice idea, but it's at way too
>>> low a level to make a real difference.
>>>
>>> Now, if we had a Pascal-like or Ada-like language that could be used
>>> as a system implementation language... :-)
>>>
>>> Simon.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
>>> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
>>
>> Next time you post that, please add a "<Trigger warning for John Reagan>" at the top please.
>>
>
> What?  You don't like "walking destinations" ?  Neither do I.
>
> I really disagree with Simon on this topic, the implementation language thing, 
> not the walking thing.  Well, maybe both.
>

I take it you are not a walker David. :-)

I wonder how many people around here who are walkers either agree with
me or at least understand what I am saying ?

> One really doesn't need a language or compiler to get in the way of what needs 
> to be done.
>

There is a move towards more safe languages for systems programming.

The current fashion, Rust, has horrible syntax, and I have no confidence
that code written in it today will still compile on the Rust compilers
of 5 to 10 years from now, but its use is being driven by the desire
for using safer languages.

When Rust falls out of fashion, it would be nice if whatever follows
Rust would address both of those problems.

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.