[Info-vax] 64-bit (was Re: New CEO of VMS Software)

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/9/2024 3:19 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 14:43:06 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> *sighs and drags BASIC forward to 64-bit and OO*
> 
> BASIC ... you got to be kidding, right?
> 
> If kids wanted to learn programming these days, I would point them at
> Python.

Education in elementary programming is probably out of
scope for VMS these days. And Basic was not the language
used back when VMS was used for that. There are other
reasons for enhancing Basic.

There is every reason to believe that a large part of
future business application development on VMS will
use non-native languages (Java, Groovy, Python, PHP,
JavaScript etc.), because that is what we see on
other platforms.

But some of those future business application development
will need to be native. It will need to link with old
native code or it will need need to use various
LIB$/SYS$ functions or for whatever reasons.

Fortran, Cobol and C should be deemed out of that race.

C++ is an obvious candidate, but not everyone likes C++.

Pascal and Basic have potential to evolve into strong
candidates as well if extended properly.

Arne