[FreeVMS] Question about FreeVMS qemu image

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Le 25.09.2013 15:26, BERTRAND Joël a écrit :
> Renee wrote:
>> I am in the process of moving. I am a former VMS developer. I wrote 
>> to ask
>> what languages you are using. If it's C, VMS developers HATED C.
>> I would like to help/join the effort but I would recommend Bliss.
>
>     I think that we have to build a kernel (or a set of servers in L4 
> paradigm) that is portable. I'm not sure that bliss is good enough to 
> reach this goal. I'm not sure there is somewhere a open sourced bliss 
> compiler that is stable and usable. And I'm not sure that there are 
> bliss developers enough to start this project with bliss.
>
>     That being said, I know that VMS users hate C. But I don't know 
> why we cannot use a subset of C functionalities to cut of all 
> "hatable" functionalities.
>


One of the reason of the success of Unix is that it was written in a 
portable language: C. C and C++  have been used to program all Unices, 
Windows, Apple OS (With some Objective-C) etc...

On the other hand:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS

" It was perhaps the best known systems programming language right up 
until C <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29> made 
its debut a few years later. Since then, C took off and BLISS faded into 
obscurity."

Of course C was hatable in the 70s when VMS started to live. In the mean 
time not only it had improved a bit, but now the debate is not using C 
but C++ for this kind of things.

Remi
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