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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: Using Ada for device drivers? (Was: the Ada mandate,
 and why it collapsed and died)
Date: 13 May 2003 21:53:46 +0100
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> In article <slrnbc0pdt.1o8.mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@lyapunov.ucsd.edu>, Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> writes:
> > On 12 May 2003 06:43:34 -0700, soft-eng <softeng3456@netscape.net> wrote:
> >> Dr Chaos <mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message news:<slrnbbof6r.6ep.mbkennelSPAMBEGONE@lyapunov.ucsd.edu>...
> >> 
> >>> Here is one key example.  VMS didn't have a shell where actual
> >>> ordinary users could write programs which functioned like the built in
> >>> ones.  It was "RUN MY_USER_PROGRAM" versus the huge hairball of "SHOW
> >>> THIS/THAT" or "SET THIS TO THAT".
> 
> It is too bad you missed the SET COMMAND documentation, but that is not
> really our fault, is it.

Most of my work used the "foreign command" feature (and continues to
do so, last updated in 1985 I think! That was a mix of Fortran,
Pascal, Macro & DCL ...)