[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-02-04, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 2/4/2022 8:56 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-02-03, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I wish C just wasn't ...
>>>
>>
>> What would be your suggested alternative for a system programming
>> language suitable for use within a kernel ?
>>
>
> Since you asked ...
>
> An implementation of Basic that produced kernel and thread safe results.
>

The problem there is that it would not be Basic in any meaningful sense.

Basic appears to have even more going on behind the scenes in some ways
than even C++ does. All that would have to disappear before you could
even consider using it in kernel code.

Simon.

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