17 Jan
2025
17 Jan
'25
8:11 a.m.
On Jan 17, 2025, at 11:03 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 1/17/25 09:46, Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
One important aspect of VMS design was a common calling standard, capable of supporting
all the languages VMS has, in any combination. So you could write C programs that call
COBOL support routines, or vice versa, all in a well documented way.
paul
I don't remember if it's part of the standard, but separate compilation is a
common extension in a bunch of languages. I don't remember if the Pascal I learned on
(PDP-10) has it, but I would certainly expect the VMS version to do so.
I can state
certainly that VMS Pascal had separate compilation features, that were VERY similar to
Borland's method.
Jon