[Info-vax] PERL for OpenVMS Alpha that will install on V8.4

[David Froble]

Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2013-12-02 09:20:01 +0000, Jan-Erik Soderholm said:
> 
>> The 10 line example on Hoffs link runs out-of-the-box with the Python 
>> port for OpenVMS.
> 
> This also ties back to my earlier comments about how little source code 
> can be needed these days to produce results that would have been 
> impressive achievements in an earlier era and with older tools; of how 
> much more dense and effective newer code and newer tools and libraries 
> and frameworks can be.   The older compilers and older environments are 
> feeling rather like coding in assembler.  Which is part of why you want 
> to learn newer tools and newer environments, too.
> 

Actually, there is most times a large amount of code behind such 
simplicity.  The library procedures are of course rather nice.

But who is to say that "legacy" (I hate that word) languages cannot have 
such libraries also?  Consolidated Data has a huge number of library 
routines to support Codis, and therefore, implementing new functions in 
Codis can be rather trivial.

If anyone is going to do comparisons, at least try to keep it apples vs 
apples and oranges vs oranges.

I'm going to raise the question of whether the libraries in some of the 
"newer" environments might be more bloated that similar capabilities 
implemented in "older" languages?

"New" doesn't impress me ....