On 2011-03-11, Anssi Saari <a...@sci.fi> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> writes:
>
>> C wasn't very widely used under VMS, and VMS had it's own screen
>> formatting and form handling libraries.
>
> Just curious, what language was widely used in VMS?
>From what I remember, FORTRAN what probably the most popular. Pascal
was also well supported and somewhat widely used (especially in
academia). Then there was BLISS-32 for the low-level stuff. C seemed
to be an afterthought and had a very "kludged" feel to it. VMS's file
I/O didn't correspond very will with the C byte stream model, and C's
view of line-termination didn't play well with everything else.
> My VMS experience is limited to running Maple for a math course in
> the university in early 1990s. Didn't know how to do much more than
> start Maple, probably just dir, logout (or was it logoff?) and ftp :)
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