[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[JKB]

Le Tue, 29 May 2012 21:32:17 +0000 (UTC),
Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de> écrivait :
> In article <OaCdndPGobaClVjSnZ2dnUVZ_rydnZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John
> Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes: 
>
>> I've never understood all the negativity against the BLISS code base.  Yes, 
>> you can't easily find good BLISS programmers, but from the C code I've seen 
>> coming from young engineers, it seems we can't find good C programmers 
>> either.
>
> Someone said a good Fortran programmer can write good Fortran in any 
> language.  I'm sure bad C programmers can write bad C in any language as 
> well.  :-)

	And a lot of C issues do not come from C itself, but from libc. I
	have written some years ago a subset of STR$ to use string
	descriptors with gcc to avoid buffer overflows.

	JKB

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