[Info-vax] Creating an open source version of VMS, was: Re: OpenVMS Hobbyist Notification

Phillip Helbig undress to reply helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de
Wed Mar 11 01:24:47 EDT 2020


In article <r49abi$hlf$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry"
<craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes: 

> I've never looked at the Linux kernel, but as far as utilities go, all
> the BSD code I've looked at is massively cleaner and easier to read that
> all of the GNU code I've looked at.

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




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