[Info-vax] The Future of Programming Languages and Web browsers

[John Reagan]

"JC" <thecookson at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:6ddf589c-5296-404f-8e1b-2966bbb4cfa7 at m26g2000yqb.googlegroups.com...
> Yesterday I stumbled across a product called RUNBASIC (From the
> authors of LibertyBasic) and my immediate
> thought was that this product demonstrates how programming for the web
> browser environment should be handled.
>
> http://runbasic.com/
>
> Although RUNBASIC is relatively embryonic (and doesn't run on
> OpenVMS), I would love to see HP develop this
> concept for its own industrial strength BASIC language on OpenVMS. I
> drool at the thought of developing web
> applications without having to give up the benefits of synchronous
> connection states and procedural constructs.
> It would also be very nice having direct access to a quality data
> management resource like RMS.
>
> I would be interested to hear what seasoned OpenVMS programmers make
> of this concept.
>

Which "concept" are you talking about?  Yet another programming language 
with embedded builtins for screen and or web drawing?  Automatic HTML 
generation?  Built-in XML parser?  Nothing new here.  Other than the scare 
tactic about adding modules to Apache, etc.

Plus from a language point of view, BASIC?  Really?!?!?

John