[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-01, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>
> It is a factor, when Simon wants it to be.  It is not a factor when Simon does 
> not want it to be.
>
> He is also good at partially quoting what someone writes, when he wants to 
> change the message to what he wants to respond to.
>

No, it means that the Unix developers had a level of insight and
forward thinking that DEC lacked when the Unix developers chose to
rewrite Unix in a mostly portable programming language from top to
bottom long before such ideas became mainstream.

It's a pity that the move to what was essentially a portable version
of VMS in Pillar 10 years after VMS was created was cancelled. That
could have _really_ opened up the future use of VMS in the same way
that the use of a mostly portable language did for Unix.

Simon.

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