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

[Keith Parris]

On 4/9/2013 6:29 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2013-04-08, Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> On 4/4/2013 11:01 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>>> Rewriting all of OpenVMS? ...
 >
> 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.
>
>>> ~Thirty million lines of Bliss and C and Macro32 is a huge project to
>>> reconstitute.
>
> This is talking about a port of the existing code base to a new
> architecture.
>
> These are two separate issues and people are mixing them up.
>
> Which one are you thinking of Keith ?

I'm thinking more along the lines of the first. Perhaps some of the 
existing C code might be something that could be reused or adapted (if 
HP agrees), but I'd expect the bulk of the code to be new.