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From: tihor@acf4.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: dsb unix vs. dec's vms
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Date: Tue, 19-May-87 18:47:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 18:47:00 1987
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(1) There is no default language since it is not expecte that you will need to 
recompile the system.  I use C for most of my own work, PL/I to maintain some 
existing systems, SPITBOL for quick awk like stuff, and Ada, Fortran, or
Pascal for oddball programs I need to write quick depending on what theroutine 
in question will be doing.

(2) Have you used the Boure Shell DEc sells?  I am not a great fan or either 
bs or csh (although ksh is not bad) but have used all of the above on occasions.
Of course we had to get the other command interpreters just like we have to buy
the languages.  Hopefully the P1003.n work will make that easier since we will
just be able to specify the Posix package for VMS and get it.