[Info-vax] Better languages than BASIC

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-12, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> wrote:
>
> Amazing that in current programming languages discussions, PASCAL is
> never mentioned anymore. I understand that it has lost a lot of 
> momentum
> and never was a big success outside of the academic field, which used 
> to
> be a DEC stronghold way in the past. But in this case, why is VSI (and
> before that HPE) still supporting that language today ? It cannot be
> customer base, can it ? It is certainly not seen as a language of the
> future either... So why ? Just because John likes it, or what ?
>

Pascal is a dead language for most new development. Unfortunately.

VSI released the compilers in order of customer usage and there is still
a large base of existing Pascal source code that needs to be able to
run on x86-64 VMS.

Simon.

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