[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-02-04 14:36, John Dallman wrote:
> In article <29ad12ab-b1a7-4a44-b1fa-3d12812cf603n at googlegroups.com>,
> xyzzy1959 at gmail.com (John Reagan) wrote:
>> On Thursday, February 3, 2022 at 2:15:48 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley
>>> 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. :-)
>> Well, the Macro-32 parser is written in Macro-32.
> 
> That sounds as if someone got carried away by the power of the VAX
> instruction set, as compared with previous instruction sets they'd used.

Meh. MACRO-11 is written in MACRO-11, as far as I know. And MACREL 
(PDP-8) might actually have been written in PAL8.

I think this was pretty much the norm earlier...

   Johnny