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

[John Reagan]

On Tuesday, March 15, 2022 at 7:44:50 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 3/14/2022 6:51 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote: 
> > On 3/14/22 18:15, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> >> On 2022-03-14, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gu... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> >>> Been there, done that.  Took the Jensen and Wirth "Users Manual and 
> >>> Report" with me on vacation and learned Pascal in two weeks. 
> >> 
> >> 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.
> Most would agree with Simon. 
> 
> C++ is a way more complex language than Pascal. 
> 
> Or to qualify it: ISO C++ is way more complex 
> than ISO non-extended Pascal and more complex than 
> VMS Pascal. 
> 
> (Object Pascal and Delphi are probably as complex 
> as ISO C++) 
> 
> Just the fact that C++ support procedural, object oriented, 
> generic and in recent versions functional programming ensures 
> that. 
> 
> Arne
C++'s template language is way beyond Object Pascal or Delphi.  I consider
it a separate functional programming language hidden inside of C++.  I've seen
people implement all sorts of algorithms using templates alone.

The lack of procedure types in Pascal was always a weak spot in my mind.
VMS Pascal never added them either but I was tempted a few times.