I spent 20+ years in my day job programming in BASIC on OpenVMS without using line numbers or GOTO's. Yet the first thing I did here was fall back to my childhood Sinclair/BBC BASIC of trying 10 PRINT "Hello" 20 GOTO 10
I'm not surprised that the system lasted that long! VMS is legendary.
I've looked through the documentation for OpenVMS BASIC and it does seem like it was a nice platform.
The entire VMS system appears to be quite a comfy environment to have worked in. (DCL, help system, documentation, standard libraries, multiple languages (Pascal, C, BASIC))
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=emr_na...
Yes indeed. The docs for VMS are great. Really cool environment.
On an unrelated note, have you seen this video yet?
10 PRINT "BOOBS" 20 GOTO 10
in all the department stores where I grew up...