[Info-vax] Coding style in the VMS's

[Andrew Commons]

On Wednesday, 29 September 2021 at 6:33:11 am UTC+9:30, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-09-28 16:33:47 +0000, El SysMan said: 
> 
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> OpenVMS itself commonly uses SDL (available on the freeware), and SDL 
> can and usually does generate symbols using the traditional 
> symbol-naming format. 

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Before SDL there was MDL (Maynard Definition Language) which was simpler than SDL 
(I emulated it in DCL) but which used the same symbol conventions.

I suspect MDL went back to the RSX days which puts it in the same time frame as
Hungarian  Notation (1970ish) so they may be independent.