[Info-vax] VMS port to x86

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:18:57 +0000, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> Neil Rieck wrote:
> 
>>> be the explanation for why many C programers today are unable to wrap
>>> their brains around record processing (most always want to open a file
>>> with "fopen()" then produce stream i/o)
> 
>> or just read the whole file in memory instead of only reading the
>> records they need.
> 
> I have seen that done in just about every language.
> 
> As memory gets bigger, more and more will do it, as they can get away
> with it longer.
> 

But that is also driven by a single user mentality "We don't need no 
stinkin' record locks".

And because folks aren't used to programming with record locks, the 
solution becomes a database when a simple sequential, relative or ISAM 
file could have sufficed.


-- 
Paul Sture