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From: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian W Moor)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: dsb unix vs. dec's vms
Message-ID: <448@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 31-May-87 11:50:18 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 31 11:50:18 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 2-Jun-87 05:02:26 EDT
References: <5828@shemp.UCLA.EDU> <34ab0e42.8be4@apollo.uucp> <3583@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> <5840@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: iwm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Ian Moor)
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK.
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In article <5840@eddie.MIT.EDU> jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal) writes:
>In article <3583@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> steven@pearl.berkeley.edu (Stephen the Greatest) writes:
>>Also, the primary language for VMS (as least I think) is FORTRAN while UNIX
>>is C.
>
>Actually, the "primary language" (whatever that means) is probably
>Assembler (MACRO-32), since that comes with every /VMS system, while
>Fortran is a separate product that costs significant extra $.

Judging by programs submitted to DECUS and comp.os.vms the prime language
seems to be Fortran, though DEC Fortran has enough extensions to make it 
useable :- IF THEN ELSE ENDIF, record structures ... 
If you mean the implementation language for VMS, most of it is BLISS, which
is about the same level as C though the code that is generated is better.


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