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

[David Froble]

clairgrant71 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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. 
> 

W H A T !!!  Not Basic?  Oh, the pain ....

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