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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-16, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> VMS Fortran and VMS C++ does not support newer standards - but those
> newer standards are used on other platforms.
>

Devil's Advocate time: Does adding new standards to a language sometimes
make it so complex that it's better to start over with a new language
that covers the same usage cases ?

> VMS Pascal and VMS Basic are very much VMS specific languages, but
> no dramatic changes the last 25 years.
>
> VMS C is the only "hot topic" due to the C99 features phase in,
> the 32 bit vs 64 bit pointers issue etc..
>

32-bit versus 64-bit pointers on VMS are not just a C issue. :-)

Simon.

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