Re: freevms 0.2.15 released

In article <op.th1l2npgtte90l@hyrrokkin>,
"Tom Linden" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:10:25 -0700, Bill Gunshannon <bill@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <op.th1lgrpgtte90l@hyrrokkin>,
"Tom Linden" <tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:38:36 -0700, Wilm Boerhout
<w5OLD.boerhout@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

on 26-10-2006 15:07 Tom Linden wrote...

What is the implementation language?

from the freeVMS website: It is developed using the C language.

/wilm
What a waste of time.

No bias on your part..... :-)

No, there is a bias, based on 40 years of writing code in more languages
than I can, or care to remember, Jovial wasn't bad. I would never have
chosen Bliss, BTW.

Well, while I have worked with computers I haven't been a programmer for
40 years, but it's getting close to that. :-) I have no biases. I
understand that every language has its strengths and its weaknesses and
that part of Software engineering is trying to pick the best language
for the job. Sometimes the strongest driving factor is still availability
of a compiler. If compilers for other languages were available on more
architectures C would probably never have gotten the hold it has, but
it was easier to port than most and that made it more available. And
it had the features needed for writting OSes.



Would you have had them write it in? PL/I?


Well, it has been used for that before, Multics, Prime, MVS (well a
version)
AOS, Stratus, Gnosis. It is industrial strength, C is not.

Maybe so, but C is available PL/I is not. Oh, and not all of Primos
was written in PL/I. None of it was C but that was probably because
a C compiler was a much later addition (we got our first one somewhere
around Primos Rev 18).

So, do you happen to have a C compiler available for my PDP-11 that you
are willing to give away? I feel like getting back into writing an OS
for it. :-)

bill

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