[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-01-31, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/31/22 08:42, 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. C is simply
>> a better language than Fortran for those kinds of tasks.
>
> All of the userland in STVOS are implemented quite nicely in Fortran.
> (Well, Ratfor actually, but then the Fortran compiler makes them
> functional.)
>

Was that before or after C became established in general use ?

Simon.

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