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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.              --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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