[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/31/2022 3:25 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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...

Pascal as in Wirth Pascal is a very good language for what it was
intended for: teaching structured programming. It is just that real
world programs need a bit more.

Arne