Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base

On 2025-04-01, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

He looks at size 6.2 -> 7.2 -> 8.2 -> 9.2 and .mar vs .c 6.2 -> 9.2.
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https://vmssoftware.com/resources/blog/2025-03-31-how-big-is-vms/
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How the hell does DCL have 30,000+ lines of code ? :-)
(Even allowing for the fact most of it is in Macro-32)

Also, regarding those BLISS/Macro-32 figures across the various modules
in general, I wonder how much smaller the code would have been if it had
been written in C ?

Simon.

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