14 Jan
2013
14 Jan
'13
5:02 p.m.
Larry is an old friend he and I left dec after to compaq-tion. He recently retired
althought i think is still doing some consulting as needed. CJ Coppersmith was the vms
technical director at that time and the architect of galaxy
On Jan 14, 2013, at 10:13 AM, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-" <system at
TMESIS.COM> wrote:
Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:
On Jan 13, 2013, at 3:25 PM, "Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-"
<system at TMESIS.= COM> wrote >=20 > There were only 3 or 4 modules
written in PL/I. Those were rewritten in C= . > Why not Bliss? Dunno.
I'd have to ask Larry or CJ but if Culter had anything to do with it
Larry Kenah? Long gone from VMS horizon... CJ isn't lighting any bulb
at the moment.
that wo= uld explain it. He disdained Bliss (and of course led both C
& PL/1 compil= ers).
Perhaps that's why he was absent after the early VMS development days. ;)
The rest of the code was Macro or Bliss. The pieces rewitten in C have
poor code to comment ratio (as too much of the code being rewritten into
C has had) and still rely on calling the $GETSPI written in Bliss. It's
not an issue of likes/dislikes. It was a question of why go out of ones
way to recode in C. It doesn't fit in well with VMS either. Too many
escape to VMS support routines to fill in the holes. There's no macro
capability for one and scant pre-initialized data support (strings and
some struct and arrays).
if you look at NT source while its C/C++ some of us think he tried to
morp= h it into PL/1=
I don't look at things Micro$oft. ;)
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