[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Paul Hardy]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>  …
> Fortran and COBOL are not suitable for writing operating system userland tools.

Not that I would encourage it as an implementation language these days, but
Fortran has been used as such in the past. I believe the Fortran H Extended
optimising compiler for the IBM 360/370 was written largely  in Fortran H
Extended.

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Paul Hardy
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