[Info-vax] HP wins Oracle Itanium case

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2012-08-24 20:19, David Froble wrote:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> What would be your language of choice then? I'm fairly proficient in a
>> whole bunch. It's just that C most often one that comes up...
>>
>>     Johnny
>>
>
> On VMS I use DEC Basic.  (Now you understand why other OS cannot help me.)
>
> When required, I can use other languages.  My current database product
> is implemented almost exclusively in Macro-32.  Even have some (hock,
> spit) C routines.
>
> As a disclaimer, would DEC Basic be able to do some of the device
> control and other stuff some people do?  I don't know, but I seriously
> doubt it.
>
> For commercial business systems, I have yet to run into anything that I
> cannot do with DEC Basic, and usually it is the best and easiest solution.

Heh. I wrote my own HTTP server in BASIC+2 only a couple of months 
ago... (see http://madame.update.uu.se/sources)

It's easy to get bugs in Basic as well.

	Johnny