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

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In article <t0uf9u$ch0$2 at dont-email.me>, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>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.

WRT Ada nor did/does it guarantee interplanetary travel -- Mars Observer. ;)  

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