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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kk3k1l$l3l$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
> To make that more tangible, let me give you a specific example to think
> about. Linux has a very flexible filesystem architecture in which new
> types of filesystems can be plugged into the existing framework and
> these new filesystems can be written by third parties.
> 
> VMS OTOH, has a monolithic tightly bound together setup.

   Just because the inteface is public and flexible does not prove
   anything about the underlying architcture.  I can make a published
   flexible interface to a monolithic architecture, or I can create
   an inflexible interface to a modular architecture and refuse to
   publish the specs.