what was VMS/OpenVMS written in?

At 3:57 PM -0700 11/30/10, Richard wrote: Only in recent years has C been used that much. One place you're likely to find a lot of C would be in DECwindows. As has been noted MACRO-32 and BLISS-32 were two of the main languages used initially. I tend to suspect there is a lot of truth to the 'standing joke'. People write tools, others find them useful, they get added to the OS. They weren't always even DEC/Compaq/HP people that wrote them. I've personally done quite a bit of Perl programming for VMS. Definitely not the normal language to use, but it's for my systems, and I like Perl. I've also written other stuff in Ada, DCL, and BASIC. Having lots of languages to choose from is a good thing in my opinion. I'm reminded of iOS development, where as near as I can tell we're limited to Objective-C if writing a native app. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | | Photographer | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | My flickr Photostream | | http://www.flickr.com/photos/33848088 at N03/ |