[Info-vax] open source OpenVMS (Re: Oracle-RDB seminar notes)

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:

(snip)

> One example which fascinated me in the early nineties was a COBOL 
> compiler for PCs written in COBOL.  I found the concept a bit mind 
> boggling and suspect from my own COBOL experience that there would be 
> some very platform specific stuff in there (e.g. big versus little 
> endian would just be the start of it), but it was done and the argument 
> went along the lines of:

I suppose that it more surprising than IBM's Fortran H compiler being
mostly (maybe a little more than 50%) written in Fortran. Mostly the
I/O routines are in assembler.

-- glen