[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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