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

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In article <17c31cc6-345f-4a7d-9502-3ec4b673cb00 at googlegroups.com>, ergamenes at gmail.com writes:
>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 ;)

... and C.

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