[Info-vax] Programming languages, was: Re: VMS documentation

[Dave Froble]

On 3/16/2022 8:55 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-03-16, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 3/16/2022 8:09 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 3/16/2022 7:53 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> I think it would have been difficult to find a language easier to learn
>>>> than Pascal.
>>>
>>> Basic on the various DEC systems.
>>
>> Wirth, Dijkstra etc. did not like Basic.
>>
>> But yes - Basic is also an easy language to learn.
>>
>
> Easy to learn but it doesn't mean you are teaching students the right
> things for when they need to start writing production code. :-)

What makes you right, and me wrong?

Basic has been used for many production systems, and some of them work rather 
well.  Note that using Ada does not guarantee a good production system.


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