Purely historic question: VT200 text graphic programming

[rzed]

Anssi Saari <as at sci.fi> wrote in
news:vg3hbba6mp7.fsf at pepper.modeemi.fi: 

> 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? 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 :) 

Did you say "was"? The last time I did any programming on a VMS system 
was ... about 5 1/2 hours ago. Our shop runs OpenVMS now, programs 
mostly in C and BASIC. I've quietly insinuated Python into the mix 
over the last few months, and that has helped my sanity considerably.

I did use the curses library with Vax C years ago, though online data 
entry programs used the SMG library. 

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rzed