Re: VMS Pascal article

On 1/2/2025 5:01 AM, Marc Van Dyck wrote:

Arne Vajhøj has brought this to us :

VMS Pascal for C/Java/C# programmers:
      https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/articles/vmspascal.html
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It is a "pre-release" - I am not sure I got it right.
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So I would love some feedback.

In the first section, you might also mention that VMS Pascal has
excellent support in LSE/SCA - for those who still use DECset...

Added something about choices for editor.

Didn't see anything about the VARYING type and its so useful
<varying>.BODY and <varying>.LENGTH functions, as well as READV and
WRITEV. Probably the most important things to know if you have to
manipulate character strings.
 May be also mention that the VMS Pascal compiler comes with declaration
modules for all VMS system services and RTLs. Combined with LSE/SCA
support, this makes system programming extremely easy.

Added mention of SYS$LIBRARY:STARLET and SYS$LIBRARY:LIB$ROUTINES and
added example making 3 simple LIB$ calls.
And used that to show and explain .BODY and .LENGTH, which made
sense to me because that is where I typical use them.

Ah, and also, good support of VMS Pascal by SDL...

Too advanced for me.
:-)
Arne