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. ;) -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.