[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/3/2022 2:20 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 2/3/22 13:43, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-02-03, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2/3/22 09:21, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> Pascal and the Modula variants offer far more than C. Fortran does not
>>>> when it comes to implementing userland tools.
>>>
>>> Same question.  In what way?  I have already shown how Fortran was
>>> used to write an entire userland for the first "POSIX" interface.
>>> 41 primitives and 50 utilities.
>>>
>>
>> In the case of Pascal and the Modula variants, that's easy.
>> Both of those options have strong type-safe and data manipulation
>> attributes and end up producing more robust code in general.
> 
> Fortran is just as strongly typed.
No it is not.

There is no argument type check between caller and called
in Fortran.

Arne