[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/31/2022 7:23 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) 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?

They have features that OS userland utilities usually doesn't need.

They lack features that many OS userland utilities do need.

Variable length strings and dynamic sizing of arrays come
to my mind.

Arne