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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: why the pascal family of languages (Pascal, Ada,
 Modula-2,2,Oberon, Delphi, Algol,...) failed compared to the C family?
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 14:20:00 +0200
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On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 12:04:44 +0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley wrote:

> That was back in the VAX days. There's been a movement towards C within
> later VMS code and you can now write VMS device drivers in C and have
> been able to do so for many years.

MACRO-11 was a better language than C, IMO.
 
> (Unlike Ada, VMS is a part of my day job.)

DEC Ada was an excellent Ada 83 compiler. Well, DEC C was the best C
compiler at that time.

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