Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: PL/I advertising Date: 3 Jun 2016 09:40:02 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 45 Message-ID: References: <873a27e2-6baf-4772-9dc8-45a8f1bc466e@googlegroups.com> <574dc93b.9587566@nntp2.rawbw.com> <5750739e.11401875@nntp2.rawbw.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net gpipHdlxrkqKvTzLi10/lQKuzIj+G+OUzvsXnaL06AO8OzQ8vx Cancel-Lock: sha1:BubZxtD/U6Xq5Ikb7BFobKdYaPE= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:164384 On 2016-06-02, Questor wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2016 22:19:30 -0400, "J. Clarke" > wrote: >>In article , scott@slp53.sl.home >>says... >>> >>> usenet@only.tnx (Questor) writes: >>> >On Sun, 29 May 2016 16:33:20 +0200, Morten Reistad >>> >wrote: >>> >>But as you state above, DEC people never really trusted the >>> >>in-house compilers. >>> > >>> >This is simply false. DEC s/w development was done almost exclusively on >>> >in-house compilers, and there wasn't any mistrust of them. Almost all products >>> >were written in either the respective assembly language or BLISS. I say >>> >"almost," because although I am not aware of any, there may have been some odd >>> >product DEC sold that was written in something else. >>> > >>> >>> It all sounds to be a bit of a muddle (MDL) :-). >> >>If everything was written in assembly language that would suggest that >>there was indeed distrust of the compilers, or at least some reason for >>not using them. > > What languages would you suggest for writing an operating system and associated > utilities? Fortran? COBOL? Having worked on a word processor written in Fortran, I'd suggest not. [26 lines snipped] > There was one notable exception among the PDP-11 systems, and it too was created > before BLISS became a company standard. The RSTS operating system and user > environment is based on an expanded version of BASIC (it was called either > BASIC+ or Basic Plus). I never got to use a RSTS system; they sounded fun to > play with.) I used RSTS-E a *lot*. I liked it. -- Today is Prickle-Prickle, the 8th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.