[Info-vax] New OpenSSL update from HP

[Simon Clubley]

On 2015-06-14, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> Dirk Munk wrote:
>> 
>> I will even go further than that. We can ask ourselves if an OpenSSL 
>> port is the best way for a VMS SSL product. Other companies have 
>> developed their own SSL package, and I can imagine that a native VMS SSL 
>> package would be a better and more effective piece of software.
>
> They'd probably still write it in C.  What would be the gain?
>

Which system implementation language (SIL) would you use ?

The reason why everyone uses C for common libraries is that there's a
C compiler (either native hosted or as a cross compiler) for every
environment out there.

This means you never have to worry if the language your library is
written in is supported for the target in question.

Personally, I would have really preferred a Wirth style language to be
the standard SIL instead of C, but C is the entrenched SIL today.

Simon.

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