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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-02-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>
> But I am no longer convinced that Basic is so much late, because
> it is so "much more complex".
>
> I suspect Basic is mostly so much late, because it was the last to
> do and that there has been found a large number of bugs found in
> the compilers released earlier that has taken most of the available
> compiler resource hours. I simply suspect that Basic has been delayed
> because John and the rest of the team has been busy fixing bugs in
> the C, C++, Fortran and Pascal compilers.
>

That could be the case, with BASIC being a lower priority than the other
compilers.

Of course, it could also be them settling into their new offices. :-)
Looks like a nice place.

Simon.

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