[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Koehler]

In article <7ij0ueF30a3ujU4 at mid.individual.net>, Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> 
> I think that's inevitable when the major language in use is C. That's a 
> design issue; I was thinking more of how well the code was (not) written.

   Which makes you wonder why the inventors of C settled on such a design 
   in a day when CPUs were so much slower.  If I had a system slower
   than a PDP-11/70, I'd have wanted it to spend it's time doing better
   things.