[Info-vax] OpenVMS async I/O, fast vs. slow

[Paul Hardy]

John Dallman <jgd at cix.co.uk> wrote:
> In article <uic1su$mief$1 at dont-email.me>, arne at vajhoej.dk (Arne Vajhøj)
>> I would expect a CS degree to give knowledge of about 3-5 languages.

In 1974 for the one-year Computer Science Part II at Cambridge (they didn’t
think there was enough to learn about Computers to fill 3 years!), we were
assumed to have learned Fortran in whatever Part I we had done (Natural
Sciences for me).

We were then taught (or expected to learn for practicals) the basics of:
BCPL, Algol W (Algol 60), ML/1 (macros), IBM 370 assembler, PDP7 assembler,
Pascal, Algol68, COBOL, PL/1, LISP, Prolog, and SNOBOL (text processing). 

Note that C was mentioned, but not used - BCPL was the equivalent systems
language used in Cambridge at that time, and was a primary influence on the
birth of C.

That range of languages taught the underlying concepts of computing and I
subsequently had little difficulty in learning what I needed of C, PDP11
assembler, VAX macro, SQL, Java, Python, JavaScript etc.

Regards,

-- 
Paul at the paulhardy.net domain