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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-04-09, Craig A. Berry <craigberry at mac.com.invalid> wrote:
> In article <kk11j5$etr$1 at dont-email.me>,
>  Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>
>> On 2013-04-08, Keith Parris <keithparris_deletethis at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> > On 4/4/2013 11:01 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> >> The rest of the
>> >> market is not standing still here, and you're talking about a project
>> >> that took three or five years last time (Alpha to Itanium) for a fairly
>> >> straight port with very few changes, and with an engineering team that
>> >> was very familiar with VMS assigned to the effort full-time.   ~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.
>
> No it's not.  What do you think the word "reconstitute" means?
>

I should have probably deleted the last sentence in hindsight; I was
talking about the rest of the paragraph.

Simon.

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