[Info-vax] VMS documentation, was: Re: Special deals on Tape Drives

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/14/22 21:41, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-03-14, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 3/14/22 18:15, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>
>>> Pascal's a little easier to learn than C++. :-)
>>
>> The much more experienced programmers where I was working at the time
>> would not agree with you.  That's why I got the task.
>>
> 
> So IOW, what you are really saying is that those programmers would
> prefer to use a language that allows them to throw something together
> that appears to work, instead of using a language that tries harder > to make them do the right thing. :-)

No, they would have preferred that a new language not be introduced
into the production environment.  But with the advent of microcomputers
(*which they also didn't think would work as the Terak we got to work
with only had 28K words of RAM and everyone knew that wasn't enough
memory to do anything practical :-)  )The only languages supported by
the Terak were F77 and UCSD-Pascal.  I was the new guy who didn't have
enough experience to know what was impossible so I got the task of
making the Teraks usable.  :-)  Yes, I did.

> 
> Work with the language, not against it. You get better results that way. :-)

Work with the languages that actually exist on the system  You get
better results that way.  :-)

bill