[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-01-31 01:22, 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...

The problem is that the ISO standard for Pascal is pretty useless. Which 
is why every useful Pascal have extensions...
And they are all different...
Which makes everything very non-standard...

But Pascal is definitely not that bad a language. But it has it's warts...

   Johnny