<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">At one point in the 80’s/90’s several of the standard VMS command line tools were PL/1. I’m thinking in particular of the Error Log Formatter (ANALYZE/ERROR) but I recall some other ANALYZE/ sources being PL/1 as well.<div><br></div><div>I seem to recall DUMP and maybe some tape utilities were in Pascal.<br><div><br></div><div>The talk at DECUS was that Digital purposefully made sure every language was represented in VMS sources!<br><div><br></div><div>In the 2000s I recall a lot of the PL/1 and BLISS system sources had been converted to C. I’m guessing the conversion had to be done because not enough staff knew PL/1 or BLISS anymore.<br><div><br></div><div>Tim<br><div><div><br>On Jan 29, 2018, at 4:24 AM, Jordi Guillaumes Pons <<a href="mailto:jg@jordi.guillaumes.name">jg@jordi.guillaumes.name</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><br class=""><div class="">
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IIRC, DECC added #pragma linkage for that. But that only matters in
kernel code - any user mode JSB linkage in the VAX calling standard
has a corresponding CALL linkage. <br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Just as side info…</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IBM added a different C compiler to zOS (MVS) to do systems stuff. They call it “Metal-C” and comes with a different RTL and assorted header files to invoke the MVS macros and address its control blocks.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t know anyone who uses it. We toke a look into it and went back to using assembler to interface with the system.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">IBM itself still uses PL/X as systems implementation language., which as far as I know has not been made available to the public until relatively recent times. As the name hints at, it’s a PL/I derivative tailored for systems and low level stuff (although the “regular” PL/I can do it without too much changes).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><div class="">Jordi Guillaumes i Pons<br class=""><a href="mailto:jg@jordi.guillaumes.name" class="">jg@jordi.guillaumes.name</a><br class="">HECnet: BITXOW::JGUILLAUMES<br class=""></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>Simh mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:Simh@trailing-edge.com">Simh@trailing-edge.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh">http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh</a></span></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>