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

[Neil Rieck]

On Nov 18, 1:13 pm, JC <thecook... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> John Cookson

Back in the day, all VMS application developers did one of several
things.
1) call OpenVMS terminal driver software (which only supported DEC
devices by default)
2) write their own terminal driver software
3) write software with embedded escape sequences

Today, browsers are replacing terminals and interfacing traditional
languages with web servers is all custom (I have done it with OpenVMS-
BASIC and OpenVMS-C). I'm not sure whether RunBASIC implements CGI
natively or from a callable library, but I have always wished there
were HP-provided callable libraries from available for so-called DEC
languages. Anyway, languages like these are a step in the right
direction because they don't tie you to something like Visual
Studio .NET (a horrible toolset)

NSR