[Info-vax] [OT] Unix terminal drivers, was: Re: Moving away from OpenVMS

[Paul Sture]

On Sun, 20 May 2012 23:51:17 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:

> On 2012-05-20, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> Don't know much (anything) about Unix, but with the tools on VMS some
>> very capable input functions can be implemented.  What's important to
>> me is, on VMS I don't have to use "C".
> 
> Strangely enough, I'm not forced to use C on Unix either. :-)
> 
> My day-to-day languages on Unix include C, Ada, Python, PHP (work only;
> you won't catch me using it at home), and bash for shell scripting.

I came across this rant about PHP over the weekend.

"PHP: a fractal of bad design"

http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

> Other languages I have used or have considered using on Unix over the
> years include Fortran, Java, COBOL, Pascal, Modula-2 and C++.

I was looking for a Unix COBOL a few years ago, but came up with a blank, 
though I will admit I was looking at free/cheap solutions.


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Paul Sture