[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Dave Froble]

On 1/31/2022 12:29 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 1/31/22 03:25, 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.
>
> Pretty useless for what?  Tasks for which the language was not designed?
>
>>                                                                     Which is
>> why every useful Pascal have extensions...
>> And they are all different...
>> Which makes everything very non-standard...
>
> Thus the reason they should have come up with new names and not called
> themselves Pascal, which they were not.
>
>>
>> But Pascal is definitely not that bad a language. But it has it's warts...
>
> Pascal is ideal for what it was designed for.  Too bad people still
> don't understand the concept of "choose the right tool for the job".

What about a "jack of all trades" that can do any job?


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