[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/27/2022 5:13 PM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> [...] As far as I can see, it's only C or maybe C++.
> 
>     Choosing one and sticking with it might help to reduce the annoyances
> resulting when every program does its file I/O in an idiosyncratic
> (language-specific?) way.  I realize that almost anything can be done in
> almost any language, but expecting anyone to write his own exotic
> user-open routine for every file just to get consistent attributes seems
> unrealistic.

I believe all VMS languages has options in open for specifying
the file attributes.

fopen(...,"rfm=var")

OPEN(...,CARRIAGECONTROL='LIST')

etc..

Which I do not consider exotic.

Arne