[Info-vax] Help wanted : Porting code from Linux to VMS

[Dave Froble]

On 1/23/2019 1:19 AM, Steven Schweda wrote:
>> [...] I've got to believe that it's a claim from those
>> already knowing C. [...]
>
>    Of course it is.  Because everyone these days knows C (or,
> at least, believes that he does).

False.  All it takes is one, and I don't use C.

>> [...] Of course, Marc would have to be able to read the C
>> code to know what it's doing.  But writing, no way.
>
>     If you can read the language well enough actually to
> understand what the code does, then how could you not be able
> to write such code?

It's one thing to read some code and try to understand it.  It's quite 
another to be able to think of how to implement things.

>> Not that I recommend re-writing. [...]
>
>     Then what, exactly, is your recommendation?  Drop the
> whole idea?

No, I'm with the rest of you, try to compile on VMs and see what 
happens.  It just might compile with no issues.

>     The point is that if C is a mystery and the IP socket RTL
> is a mystery, then converting both to somethings else would
> likely be more work and less likely to succeed than learning
> enough C to deal with what must be working, existing C code.
>
>     Of course, it's tough to make specific recommendations
> regarding invisible code to satisfy invisible requirements.
>
You got that right ...

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