[Info-vax] VAX Macro to C conversion

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-07-08, Michael Moroney <moroney at world.std.spaamtrap.com> wrote:
> seasoned_geek <roland at logikalsolutions.com> writes:
>
>>On Monday, June 24, 2019 at 7:39:07 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> 
>>> How much work would be involved in a rewrite of the shadowing code in C ?
>>> 
>
>>Careful there. You are forgetting the C compiler is roughly 2 decades behind in 
>>standards and capabilities.
>
> Out-of-date C compilers would be the least of the problems with such a
> rewrite.

Yes, but if you were implementing something like this from scratch
these days, you would use C instead of Macro-32 simply because of
all the major advantages C brings you, even with an old compiler.

And before all you Macro-32 lovers jump on me for that comment, :-)
remember that times change and for good reason.

I understand why huge amounts of VMS were written in Macro-32 back
in the 1970s and why it was probably the correct choice for that era.

It doesn't mean it's the right choice however if you were to do VMS
from scratch in the 21st century, or even if you were to do any new
significant additions to the existing VMS codebase.

Simon.

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