30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
4 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:59 PM, <arcarlini at
iee.org> wrote:
> VMS/VAX was mostly MACRO-32 and BLISS although you can find other
> languages there too (e.g. PL/I for MONITOR iirc).
And I know I've seen C (for some tool that came
out in the VMS 5.x
era, not originally) and COBOL and PASCAL. Probably FORTRAN, too,
but I couldn't tell you what tools were written in what languages this
far out. I do recall that I was surprised to see the messages
generated by the error log scrubber tool (forget the name at the
moment). It was one of the lesser-used languages, possibly PL/I (a
language I never personally did anything with, which is why it might
stick out in my memory).
The answer would vary depending on what revision you're looking at.
For 7.3ish VAX OS source proper (includes RTLs, but no translators or
layered products), on VERY casual inspection, it looks like about 3000
files of MACRO, 2900 of Bliss, 1400 of C, 155 of message definitions, 65
of Fortran, 35 of Ada, 20 of command definitions, 10 of PL/1, 10 of
Pascal, 5 of Uil, a few DCL.
I can't find any COBOL, BASIC, MODULA, CORAL, DIBOL, etc.
De