[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:
> On 3/10/2020 9:05 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 
>> Why would the language used matter?
>
> Lines of code per functionality (function point or however
> you want to measure it) varies across languages.
>
> It requires more lines in Macro-32 than in C.
>
> It requires more lines in C than in some newer languages.
>

I see you have made the same point I just did. In addition, you get
the benefit of the additional compile time checking even in C when
compared to Macro-32 and the use of higher level data structures which
can be checked for correct use at compile time.

Simon.

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