[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-02, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> You said above:
> "What makes some things about VMS so limiting in the 21st century is
> as a direct result of it being designed in the 1970s instead of it
> being designed around more modern techniques and concepts."
>
> The implementation language have pretty much nothing to do with the design.
>
> Maybe what you actually meant is that the problem with VMS was that the 
> implementation was done in a very 70s non-portable way?
>

That could be a far better way of expressing this, especially when
compared to how forward looking the Unix designers were during the
same time frame. Thank you Johnny.

Simon.

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