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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Stephen Hoffman   
   Re: OpenVMS system programming language   
   28 Dec 24 07:09:38   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Fri, 27 Dec 2024 22:47:58 -0500, Stephen Hoffman wrote:   
      
   > Starting in the early 1990s, the language choice for DEC OpenVMS was C.   
      
   It could do with Pascal-style extensions added to it to cope with   
   descriptors, counted strings, named arguments etc. Otherwise it is quite   
   an awkward language to use for VMS programming.   
      
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