OpenVMS native IO code, in C, can certainly get rather hairy, from what I’ve seen. For example, the OpenVMS port of SQLite: https://github.com/endlesssoftware/s

OpenVMS native IO code, in C, can certainly get rather hairy, from what I’ve seen. For example, the OpenVMS port of SQLite: https://github.com/endlesssoftware/sqlite3/blob/8004eeafeec9ac4bc0fbc7a3c0bb01eca55694a0/os_vms.c#L223 https://github.com/endlesssoftware/sqlite3/blob/8004eeafeec9... When you speak of “more ‘native’” languages, what do you mean? BLISS? MACRO? Pascal/BASIC/COBOL/FORTRAN? How do they make code like that simpler?