[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Dave Froble]

On 2/3/2022 2:53 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 2/3/2022 12:04 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 2/3/22 10:43, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 2/3/2022 10:17 AM, Bill Gunshannon 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.
>>> They tend to protect the developers feet a bit.
>>
>> How does one shoot themselves in the foot with Fortran? :-)
>
> Call a subroutine/function with the wrong type of argument.
>
> Use invalid character index.
>
> Use invalid array index.
>
> Have different declaration of same common block.

For those types of mistakes, the foot is the wrong target.  Perhaps the head 
would be more appropriate?


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