[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 2/2/22 13:54, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 

Really?  How many systems have Pillar compilers today?  Does VMS?

bill