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

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On Wednesday, 11 March 2020 13:22:06 UTC, Simon Clubley  wrote:

> The need to support Macro-32 as an application programming language is
> the reason why the various VMS APIs look the way they do.

True. Other systems suffer from zero terminated strings in their APIs, and lack of keyword arguments because of the need to support C. Swings and roundabouts.

Maybe I'm going native, looking at a large chunk of MACRO but it was good for its time. Some days VAX MACRO looks distinctly higher level than portable MACRO-11 ;)