[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 21:55:29 EST 2022


On 1/30/22 18:23, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-28, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> And which Fortran standard includes "!DEC$ATTRIBUTES ADDRESS64::cy"?
>>
> 
> Some programming languages have pragma statements and that is the
> same thing.
> 
> $ set response/mode=good_natured
> 
> Or are you those people who doesn't like that newfangled Fortran
> stuff such as free-form statements and thinks everyone should
> write Fortran in punched card format ? :-)
> 

I'm one of those people who think if you significantly change
a language you should have the courtesy to give it a new name
and not pretend it is an already existing language.  :-)

The only real C is that described in the K&R manual.

bill



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