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Indeed, although C kind of felt second-class on VMS since the language has a lot of Unixisms embedded in the standard library and, to a lesser extent, the langu
by dhosek 9mo ago
Indeed, although C kind of felt second-class on VMS since the language has a lot of Unixisms embedded in the standard library and, to a lesser extent, the language itself.
Being able to define command line interfaces using cld files on VMS was really wonderful and you got things like abbreviations of options (and commands) to their shortest unique initial string was quite nice (so, for example, the directory command could be named as such but everybody just typed dir).
- nineteen999 9mo agoMuch of VMS was eventually rewritten in C to accomodate the Alpha.
- pjmlp 9mo agoBy then it was OpenVMS.
- nineteen999 9mo agoVery familiar with it. Ran it in production for a major gambling company in my country for years. The stability was okay (no better than say Solaris) but the ergonomics for administrators and developers was absolutely horrid. The Alpha though? It's a shame DEC couldn't push it hard enough to prevent x86_64 from happening.