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From: "Robert A. Brooks" <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com>
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Subject: Re: VMS Pascal article
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2025 09:30:37 -0500
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On 1/3/2025 7:59 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/2/2025 10:48 PM, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
>> On 1/2/2025 10:32 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

>>> I thought it was PL/I. Which is why I asked. 
>>
>> Rewritten in the early 2000's.
> 
> Ah. So it was rewritten for Itanium instead of being AEST'ed.
> 
> I wonder whether it was because someone at HP decided
> to do the right thing or because AEST couldn't handle
> it.

I am not aware of an attempt to AEST it; it was rewritten
by Walter Breu (sp?) of HP Germany.  He was not in VMS Engineering,
so I wasn't paying a lot of attention when he was doing the work.

Pretty sure it was part of the "get rid of all PL/I" initiative.

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                    --- Rob