From: FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com   
      
   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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