From: davef@tsoft-inc.com   
      
   On 11/12/2025 6:39 PM, Brian Schenkenberger wrote:   
   > On 2025-11-12 13:04:23 +0000, Dan Cross said:   
   >>   
   >> I suspect that there is a lot of business code floating around   
   >> in memory-unsafe languages (MACRO-32, Pascal, maybe COBOL if   
   >> used in some odd ways) etc.  Not to mention FFI calls from safe   
   >> languages into unsafe code.   
   >   
   > What *exactly* is memory unsafe using Macro? You do realize that the lion's   
   > share of VMS is Macro???   
   >   
   > — VAXman   
   >   
      
   Well ....   
      
    From what I've read, Macro-32 is down to 33% or less these days, and   
   shrinking.   
      
   I'm not really sure just what "memory unsafe" means.  Nor is "idiot safe"   
   something that can be enforced in any language.   
      
   Good code is relatively safe, but not always.  I defy anyone to mention any   
   language in which I cannot do something stupid.  Might exist, but I can really   
   be very stupid.   
      
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