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Le 25.09.2013 15:26, BERTRAND Joël a écrit :
<blockquote cite="mid:5242F27C.4050301@systella.fr" type="cite">Renee
wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">I am in the process of moving. I am a
former VMS developer. I wrote to ask
<br>
what languages you are using. If it's C, VMS developers HATED C.
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I would like to help/join the effort but I would recommend
Bliss.
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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.
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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.
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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...<br>
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On the other hand:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS</a><br>
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" It was perhaps the best known systems programming language right
up until <a
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_%28programming_language%29"
title="C (programming language)">C</a> made its debut a few years
later. Since then, C took off and BLISS faded into obscurity."<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Remi<br>
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