[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Tue Feb 1 09:06:11 EST 2022


On 2022-01-31, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And, it's irrelevant anyway. Your comment was that Fortran was
> unsuitable and the fact that all of the userland and all of the
> primitives needed to make this possible were, in fact, written
> in Fortran.
>

No. I said it's not suitable for writing userland tools today.

I also said that Fortran could be made to work, and I gave an example
of that, but I also said that when C came along, it was clearly a
far better choice.

Simon.

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