[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Richard B. Gilbert]

Howard S Shubs wrote:
> In article <7j97blF34f1s1U11 at mid.individual.net>,
>  Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> wrote:
> 
>> I was always amazed at the amount of stuff written in FORTRAN. I used 
>> something for monitoring users' terminals, and that was in FORTRAN.
> 
> Is that a problem?
> 

Only if you make it a problem.  I've worked on systems that had only 
Fortran and assembler or C and assembler.  Compilers are expensive! 
Generally, you pick the language that is the best fit to your problem 
space and live with it.  If you are filthy rich, you buy Fortran, C, 
COBOL, PL/1, ADA and any other currently fashionable languages.