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   Robert A. Brooks to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: VMS Pascal article   
   02 Jan 25 22:30:36   
   
   From: FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com   
      
   On 1/2/2025 9:53 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 20:49:43 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 1/2/2025 7:34 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>> On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 17:19:14 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>> On 1/2/2025 5:01 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:   
   >>>>> Ah, and also, good support of VMS Pascal by SDL...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Too advanced for me.   
   >>>   
   >>> SDL is just the common language used for defining interfaces. That’s   
   >>> how files like STARLET.PAS get automatically generated.   
   >>   
   >> I know what it is is.   
   >   
   > It’s also not that hard to understand, if you take the “Rosetta Stone”   
   > approach of looking at the original SDL source and comparing with its   
   > output for a particular language that you know.   
   >   
   > There was also one called MDL, if I recall rightly, which looked like it   
   > was more on the MACRO level.   
      
   Depending on whom you ask, it was either Module or Maynard Definition Language.   
      
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