[Info-vax] Trigger warnings, was: Re: 8-bit characters

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 11/14/2021 2:43 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 11/14/2021 1:41 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> However, you have been way too quick to issue a "trigger warning"
>> request without even telling me what "triggered" you. :-)
>>
>> Was it comparing BLISS-32 to Macro-32 ?
>>
>> Was it the desire to have a Pascal-like or Ada-like language as a
>> viable system implementation language ?
> 
> I'm figuring this is it.  No such thing as a language that can do 
> everything. Sometimes simpler is better.

Programming languages are definitely not "one size fits all".

I totally agree that simpler is better for programming languages.

And this is not just you and me - very complex languages tend not
to prosper in the industry.

But I don't think Simon's point was complex vs simple.

More like structured vs goto style. and strong typing vs weak
typing.

Because Ada is a complex language, but Pascal is actually a relative
simple language (at least in traditional form and in VMS flavor - Delphi
has sort of moved a bit in the complex direction).

Arne