[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

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In article <ssurv4$nm1$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2022-01-27, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 1/27/2022 11:25 AM, John Reagan wrote:
>>> On Thursday, January 27, 2022 at 3:39:38 AM UTC-5, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>> Why C, when there are better languages?
>>> 
>>> If you are about to use the B-word, better is relative.
>>
>> Obviously.
>>
>> But not everybody is in love with C.
>>
>> Personally I consider C a fine language for OS kernel development
>> but not so great a language for more regular applications. And
>> DIR is really an application.
>>
>> I am not good at VMS Basic, so I would prefer VMS Pascal.
>>
>>:-)
>>
>
>Pascal is acceptable, but Ada would be better. :-)
>
>On a more serious note, what would be an acceptable programming language
>for userland tools which need to be shipped as part of the operating system ?
>
>Let's look at the language options for creating a new userland level
>tool on VMS today:
>
>Macro-32 and BLISS are absolutely unsuitable for obvious reasons.

What *obvious* reasons?

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