[Info-vax] Moving away from OpenVMS

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <foednafrXoDqUSDSnZ2dnUVZ_jmdnZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John
Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes: 

> EDIT/FDL was written in Pascal but was recoded into C about a dozen years 
> ago.  The error log formatter was written in Fortran many years ago, but it 
> too was recoded into C.

What is EDT written in?  (I believe it is also a VESTed image on 
Itanium, maybe even on ALPHA.)

> Besides C, BLISS, and Macro-32, the AUDIT_SERVER and ACME_SERVER are written 
> in Ada.  There are pieces of the Pascal RTL written in Pascal.  As far as I 
> know, there is no COBOL, BASIC, or Fortran in the build.

So the 6-character limit for node names has another source (no pun 
intended) than the limit on a variable name in Fortran before Fortran90.