[Info-vax] Better languages than BASIC

[Marc Van Dyck]

Robert A. Brooks submitted this idea :
> 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.

Oh, if we speak about DECset, what about the other products ? PCA being
essentially an alternate debugger, it might cause some issues too,
right ?

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Marc Van Dyck