[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Thu Feb 3 09:22:21 EST 2022


On 2022-02-02, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>

Exactly zero systems have Pillar compilers today. Unfortunately.

Simon.

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