[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/31/2022 8:42 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-31, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>> In article <ssurv4$nm1$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>> Fortran and COBOL are not suitable for writing operating system userland
>>> tools.
>>
>> Why not?
> 
> For the same reason that OS designers moved from Fortran to C as the
> system implementation language when C became available.

I am not aware of any OS done in Fortran.

And the world did not switch to C for OS development when C was
invented. That happened 10-20 years later.

>                                                          C is simply
> a better language than Fortran for those kinds of tasks.

C is a good language for OS kernel.

I don't see it as particular well suited for user land utilities.
C's low level features are not needed and just add risk.

Arne