Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!quintus!ok
From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Question Re: Configuration Management
Message-ID: <706@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 88 04:59:21 GMT
References: <497@aimt.UUCP> <2640@ihlpe.ATT.COM> <188@dinl.mmc.UUCP> <34588UH2@PSUVM>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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In article <34588UH2@PSUVM>, UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
> SAS is a million lines of source, and is written in C, though I believe
> it is a traslation from the original PL/1.  They must have some extra
> tools they use--are they homebrew or commercial?

The story I heard is that SAS was originally written in /370 assembly
code.  In 1979, if you asked them "when can we get it for other machines"
their joke was "wait 5 years, and we'll send you a /370 chip with the
tape."  I believe that the rewrite into PL/I enabled the VAX/VMS and
PR1ME/PRIMOS ports, and that the rewrite into C was motivated by the
fact that PL/I isn't all that common on micros and workstations...

SAS is to VM/CMS what AWK is to UNIX, only more so.