[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <lujplj$sv3$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> writes: 

> > I am not sure what does and doesn't qualify, but TeX, and
> > related programs, used the Command Definition Utility, such
> > that you had to tell DCL about it with a .CLD file. It then
> > accepted DCL-like command options.
> >
> > I would call that a VMS program, but others might disagree.
> 
> Yes... But TeX was not originally written for VMS. And the question here 
> was what programs were *originally* written for VMS, but written with 
> ease of porting to other operating systems in mind.

TeX no but (AFAIK) LaTeX yes.  OK, it wasn't "written for VMS" but 
written on VMS with portability in mind.

I don't know if some of its features which are VMS like on VMS because,
essentially, it is VMS but which work the same (via other mechanisms,
perhaps) elsewhere, such as assuming a file type if not specified, are 
there because of the VMS legacy or if this is just a superficial 
similarity.