[Info-vax] Better languages than BASIC

[Dave Froble]

On 1/12/2024 6:15 AM, Marc Van Dyck 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 ?

You finally figured it out.

:-)

Pascal is John's baby, and if you have John running the compiler people, you 
will always have Pascal.  If you don't have John running things, you might be sorry.

:-)

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