[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/29/2022 5:33 PM, cao... at pitbulluk.org wrote:
> On Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 9:55:18 PM UTC, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/29/2022 3:21 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Note that for the task that triggered this thread (DIRECTORY command)
>>> which consist of:
>>> - retrieving parameter and qualifiers
>>> - get info via RMS calls
>>> - output result
>>> then something even higher level than C would make sense. There is no
>>> need for any of the "flexibility" of C.
>> One can of course always discuss levels - there is no clear
>> definition, but I would rank like:
>>
>> Python, PHP, Perl
>> C++, Ada95, Java
>> Pascal, Basic, Ada83, Fortran 9X
>> Fortran 77, Cobol
>> C
>> Bliss
>> Macro
>>
>> YMMV
> 
> Perhaps we should just have done with it and get .NET ported to VMS.... and then not bother with the VMS bit.

.NET is a good platform and C# is a very nice language.

So it would be great to have them available on VMS.

But my gut feeling is that the VMS world has more overlap
with the Java world and the Python world than with the
.NET world and the PHP world.

Arne