[Info-vax] Programming Languages (was: Re: VMS - The new file system. What do we know about it?...)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <o0d1e8$lhc$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes: 

> I knew there was a lot of work done about that time to allow C in the
> kernel (I've only ever written VMS device drivers in C) but I had
> thought for some reason it was a driver only thing; I didn't realise
> it extended to the rest of VMS as well.

Apparently some bugs were introduced when MAIL was converted from BLISS 
to C.

> The major problem with Rust is that it tends to make Perl code look
> readable by comparison.

Quote of the day:

BTW, the source code to perl gives me a headache, I haven't seen anything so
convoluted since I did the Maple ports for Waterloo.  The comments are either
quotes from 'Lord of the Rings' or self-congratulatory remarks of how efficient
or clever the next block of code is.

                                                                 ---David Jones