Purely historic question: VT200 text graphic programming

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-03-11, Anssi Saari <as at sci.fi> wrote:
> Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> writes:
>
>> C wasn't very widely used under VMS, and VMS had it's own screen
>> formatting and form handling libraries.
>
> Just curious, what language was widely used in VMS?

>From what I remember, FORTRAN what probably the most popular.  Pascal
was also well supported and somewhat widely used (especially in
academia).  Then there was BLISS-32 for the low-level stuff.  C seemed
to be an afterthought and had a very "kludged" feel to it.  VMS's file
I/O didn't correspond very will with the C byte stream model, and C's
view of line-termination didn't play well with everything else.

> My VMS experience is limited to running Maple for a math course in
> the university in early 1990s. Didn't know how to do much more than
> start Maple, probably just dir, logout (or was it logoff?) and ftp :)

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