[Info-vax] Are queue manager updates written to disk immediately ?

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2013-04-12 16:13:09 +0000, Paul Sture said:
> 
>> $sndjbc was so programmer userland unfriendly that a colleague wrote 
>> some wrappers for it.
> 
> No shortage of those APIs around, either.  Salient examples: 
> smg$create_menu... decc$to_vms()...
> There's OpenSSL, with the wrapper that was recently posted...
> My latest and newest and bestest API friend sys$acm[w]...
> Or... well, all sorts of other calls within VMS and various LPs.
> 
> 

Complex can also be flexible.  Easy to use can also be rigid.

And it's possible for things to go to extremes in either direction. 
That's why we end up writing wrappers for some things that provide some 
ease of use for our particular usage of a tool.

I cannot let the reference to OpenSSL go without observing that it 
wasn't complex and hard to use, it was downright unusable outside of C.

In general, I feel that the complexity of VMS system services is pretty 
much in line with the complexity of the specific operation.  For 
example, assigning a channel is rather simple.  But creating a process 
is not, and without all the options, it probably wouldn't be of much use.