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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/15/2022 11:13 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> 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.

> 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.

Newer Delphi versions got generics.

But it may be more like Java/C# generics than like C++ templates, which
is a unique weird construct.

Arne