[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-15, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
>
> There are hundreds of thousands of lines of Macro32 in just the code that
> I maintain for several third-party applications.  In this day and age, it
> is highly doubtful that the companies which own these products would pay
> me to recode it all in your beloved C language and then, go through all of
> the effort to verify that the rewritten code still performs like the old.
> I think there was another company that put forth that same argument.  If
> ONLY I could only DECant its name from my vast recollection. 
>

C isn't beloved by me Brian. It is however the most practical and viable
language to use in a wide range of applications unfortunately.

As I have made clear _many_ times, I wish something from the Wirth side
of the language ecosystem had become established as a standard and viable
alternative to C. Unfortunately, I have to work with what is available
and viable, not what I would like to use in an ideal world.

Simon.

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