[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

Dave Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Sun Jan 30 19:34:32 EST 2022


On 1/30/2022 7:22 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-29, Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:
>>
>> Pascal is pretty limited but makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot.
>> And most implementations don't use null-terminated strings which are the
>> most serious source of vulnerabilities in C code.
>> --scott
>>
>
> I wouldn't call Pascal "limited". DEC used it to implement VAXELN...
>
> Simon.
>

Everything is limited in some way.

Whether those ways are important is the real issue.

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