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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-03-10, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> 20 million lines of code => more than 20000 man months of effort
>

Assuming that figure is accurate, a major chunk of that is Macro-32.

Code written in a higher level language will be smaller, easier to write
and will have additional compile-time error checking by the compiler.

Simon.

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