[Info-vax] Python for OpenVMS VAX

[William Webb]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Chris Allen <ca.allen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Oct 13, 3:23 pm, sapienzaf <sapie... at noesys.com> wrote:
>> On Oct 13, 5:43 pm, Chris Allen <ca.al... at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Unfortunantly I can't move to Alpha or Itanium,
>> > otherwise I would have already.
>>
>> May I ask why not?  Is it a cost issue, management inertia, or
>> something else?
>>
>> If you have the source code then I would think porting becomes a very
>> good option.
>
> There's a few reasons.  We run quite a bit of legacy software that was
> written by an employee who is deceased.  It might be a snap to port
> his software to Alpha or IA64 but we don't know.  His programs run
> great, and haven't needed any modifications in years.  Also we run a
> very ancient source code control tool called CCC (this predates CCC
> Harvest), for which we only have a VAX binary of.  My goal as a system
> manager here is to get off of CCC entirely, so not being able to run
> CCC on the new machine won't be a problem if I can migrate the code
> out of it into say Mercurial.  Now that I'm thinking about it it might
> not be a big deal to move to Alpha or IA64.
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Software written by a programmer now deceased?

That's what I'd call LEGACY code.

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