[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sun Jan 30 21:21:24 EST 2022


Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> 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.
>
>I wouldn't call Pascal "limited". DEC used it to implement VAXELN...

DEC Pascal... is a lot more than just Pascal.
But even so, Modula-2 is probably a better choice for implementing a kernel.
--scott
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