30 Nov
2010
30 Nov
'10
4:50 p.m.
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Dennis Boone <drb at msu.edu> wrote:
?> 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).
The answer would vary depending on what revision you're looking at.
Ah. Good point. I was considering the question from the perspective
of "what language was VMS _originally_ written in", which colored my
answer.
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.
Sure. I can see that.
I can't find any COBOL, BASIC, MODULA, CORAL,
DIBOL, etc.
In 7.3, I'm sure that's now true. I'm pretty sure I remember some
COBOL and BASIC back in the 4.x and 5.x days, but I can't promise that
my memory is 100% correct.
-ethan