[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-01, Paul Hardy <p.g.hardy at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

You are correct about past use. In the context of the discussion,
I meant they are not suitable for writing userland tools _today_
and I gave an example of where I had seen Fortran used in the
distant past while I was still in school and before before C got
established outside of Unix.

Simon.

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