[Info-vax] Better languages than BASIC

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 1/13/2024 7:05 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 13/01/2024 16:52, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 1/12/2024 4:46 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 1/12/2024 4:20 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>>> - And the online Pascal docs will be updated soon (I just finished the
>>>> review of the Reference Manual and I'm about done with the User Manual).
>>>> The revision adds x86 works AND incorporates a bunch of stuff from the
>>>> release notes that have never made it to the manual.  [I've been doing
>>>> lots of doc review lately.]
>>>
>>> Can you reveal anything about how far out Basic for VMS x86-64 is?
>>>
>>> 1 day? 1 week? 1 month? 1 quarter?
>>
>> Closer to 1 quarter than one month.
>>
> 
> Oh Goody! Will it come with LSE?

They are unrelated.

LSE still has some issues with exception handling.  The problems are
somewhat obscure, but nonetheless a regression from LSE on IA64 and Alpha.

It's on my to-do list, but it's not at the top right now, although
it's close.

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                    --- Rob