[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[P. Sture]

In article <7j9k7lF3554brU2 at mid.individual.net>,
 billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) wrote:

> I have seen an amazing bunch of stuff written in a lot of different
> languages.  Screen Control routines in COBOL.  Editors and even a
> database system written in Fortran.  And most of them required that
> you violate some standard at some point in the program.  Amazing what
> some people will do to save a buck or prove a point.

Or simply do the necessary with the tools available.  I know some of the 
things I did were heavily dependent on the VAX calling standard, little 
endian architecture and DEC language extensions.  Then again, in those 
days parting to a different platform generally meant a rewrite as you 
would also want to expand the applications beyond their original 
business requirement.

-- 
Paul Sture