[Info-vax] VMS port to x86
Johnny Billquist
bqt at softjar.se
Wed May 30 12:44:46 EDT 2012
On 2012-05-30 06:53, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article<qcKdnRmnLMttzljSnZ2dnUVZ_jednZ2d at insightbb.com>, "John Reagan"<johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
>
>> The
>> ability in BASIC, COBOL, etc. to build OpenVMS descriptors wouldn't be found
>> in any other variant for x86.
>
> An OpenVMS descriptor is a fully documented data structure, and I'm
> not sure I've ever seen an HLL where I couldn't build it.
>
> On the other hand, I've yet to find out how to build actual data
> structures in Lisp, other than the built-in cons cell.
Lisp? It's all cons-cells... :-)
Johnny
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