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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 3/15/22 19:44, 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.gunshannon 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.

You misunderstood.  :-)

I didn't mean they would have thought (C++ hadn't been invented yet
at that point in time) C++ easier to learn than Pascal.  They would
have believed both were too complex to learn and should not have been
considered for introduction into the production environment.

Most of them couldn't even do PL/I and none of them could do assembler.

bill