[Info-vax] VMS porting/rewrite, was: Re: [OT] Wirth style languages, was: Re: Obscure Ada compiler vendors?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kk11j5$etr$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
> This is talking about a rewrite of the code from the ground up, maintaining
> user level API compatibility, but with different and more modern internals.

   Different internals wouldn't be VMS.  There are some applications
   that depend on the behaviour of the existing internals.