[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/14/2023 2:31 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2023-03-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> It is way more likely to have a need for types like:
>>
>> 1..100
>> 0..99
>> -10..10
>> etc.
>>
>> But that is not in fashion today (Pascal, Modula-2,
>> Oberon, Ada etc. are rare today).
>>
> 
> Unfortunately. :-(
> 
> Are there any languages other than the Wirth-inspired ones which do
> have them as part of the core language ?

Not that I am aware of.

> BTW, given what the Rust people claim about Rust's target markets,
> I consider that to be a surprising omission from Rust, given that they
> had all these languages to look at when they were designing Rust.

A large chunk of Rust target market is the low level
near to the hardware market and there it may actually
be the requirement that there is N bits to fill out.

But in the much bigger business related market then there is
rarely a bit requirements - most likely those defining the
requirements do not know what a bit is.

Arne