From: arne@vajhoej.dk

On 7/16/2025 6:34 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2025-07-14 18:46:35 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>> That doesn't surprise me unfortunately. It is very clear that you
>> will need ongoing staff to give the servers a good kick when they
>> go wrong, but it is also clear that those same systems are now in
>> legacy mode, so you don't need people to make changes to them.
>>
>> In other words, this just formalises what has already generally
>> been accepted to be the case.
>
> I've done developer-focused OpenVMS training courses.
>
> Most recently was a course for using C on OpenVMS.
>
> There hasn't been much call for those classes, though.

Late 80's DEC offered a course "VMS for Programmers",
which I thought was pretty cool.

Assuming that people knew DCL (incl. compiler and linker
commands) and at least one programming language. Generic
course material plus language specific work book, so
that everyone could use the language they knew.

Covering various LIB$, various SYS$, SMG$ etc..

I believe they had at least Fortran, Pascal and Cobol
versions - I suspect that also had Basic and C.

(I was on Fortran)

Arne

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