[Info-vax] VAX VMS going forward

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-07-17, John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have said several times, to several people, in several forums: The day
> you ask me to starting making VAX compilers again is the day we'll start
> planning my retirement party.  I ain't got no time for that stuff.  The
> thought of the VAX VCG and PL/1 (much of the VCG is written in PL/1) is a
> hard NO.  I will use my safeword on that one.  

Given how nice the VAX architecture itself actually was as a compiler
target, what made the compilers so horrible to work with ?

Or is it the PL/1 bit you don't like ? :-)

Simon.

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