[Info-vax] Technical issues with VMS BASIC port to x86-64 ?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 2/20/24 12:27 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> This is NOT a moan about how long it is taking for BASIC to appear,
> and I would request people not turn it into one, at least in this
> thread.
> 
> I am curious, at a purely technical level, about the issues that VSI
> have encountered with porting BASIC to x86-64 VMS and what the issues
> are, at a technical level, that is making the port of BASIC apparently
> much more complex than the other traditional VMS languages.

I'm pretty sure this has already been explained multiple times.  What I
think I remember is that exception handling and dynamic maps pose some
challenges, and there may be RTL dependencies that are somewhat
different from the other compilers.  But I don't think COBOL was easy
either -- it just has a lot more users and was thus a higher priority.