[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

John Reagan xyzzy1959 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 3 20:22:53 EST 2022


On Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 2:15:48 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-02-03, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gu... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > On 2/3/22 10:37, Arne Vajhøj wrote: 
> >> 
> >> A key thing in such tools are string handling. 
> > 
> > Any shortcomings in string handling in Fortran didn't seem to 
> > stop it from proving the 41 primitives and 50 utilities in 
> > STVOS. 
> >
> You can write a full-blown parser in Macro-32 if you really want to. 
> 
> It doesn't mean that any sane person would want to do that when there 
> are better languages available. :-)
> Simon. 
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
Well, the Macro-32 parser is written in Macro-32.



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