[Info-vax] VMS - The new file system. What do we know about it?...

[clairgrant71 at gmail.com]

On Sunday, November 13, 2016 at 7:23:47 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-11-13, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> >
> > Whew!  I'm off the hook... for now.
> >
> 
> $ set response/mode=good_natured_troll
> 
> I'm surprised you haven't asked what language VSI are using to
> implement this new filesystem, given certain opinions you have
> expressed in the past. :-)
> 
> $ set response/mode=serious_response
> 
> On a more serious note, I do hope that any new work to VMS is being
> done purely in C at a minimum (with maybe even a better higher level
> language for the userland code). I think the days of Bliss and
> especially Macro-32 are long past for any new code (or at least for
> any new source code files added to VMS from now on).
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world

All new work has been done in C for around 20 years now. There are some rare exceptions, sure, but the dictum has been C for a long time. I want to say since not too long after we ported to Alpha but I cannot remember for sure. The one ongoing exception is when we need to do something in assembler for performance or a calling standard exception, for example.

Yes, there is still a ton of MACRO-32 and BLISS in the system.