[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Dave Froble]

On 7/16/2022 8:35 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/16/22 01:00, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 7/15/2022 10:33 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>>> A bigger question would be other than Dave how much of the VMS
>>> application base still uses BASIC.   :-)
>>
>> A decent indicator of that is Clair Grant saying a while back that there would
>> always be a Basic compiler on VMS, or, something to that effect.  Perhaps he
>> has a better feel for the user base?
>>
>
> Probably true, but you have to admit that in a world where COBOL
> (the first serious business programming language) is considered
> dead and languages like Fortran, Pascal and even Ada don't even
> rate a mention in a CS degree program it is pretty funny that a
> children's programming language best known for things like the
> TRS-80 and VIC-20 is still in use.
>
> bill

"children's programming language best known for things like the
TRS-80 and VIC-20"

I'm not sure that you intended that to be derogatory, or just your opinion, but 
the Basic Plus language produced by EG&H was not the same as some Basic 
languages.  It had many good features, and, was quite adequate for business 
programming, and other uses.  The name may be shared, but the implementations 
were very different.  As DEC Basic, and follow-ons, it has only gotten better.

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