[Info-vax] Why so much Unix envy?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-09-08, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>
> This whole thread started because someone complained about the 
> difficulty in porting some software to VMS since the programmer were so 
> Unix-centric in their coding, and I just pointed out that they should 
> not throw stones in glass houses, as programs written under VMS was not 
> written with any more portability in mind.
>
> I'm not saying anything more than that. VMS programs (or programmers) 
> were just not any better than those that were complained about.
>

I agree.

And BTW, at the rate things are going, if you want to run some Linux
originated software on VMS, you are going to need to emulate the
systemd interfaces. :-(

My position in the systemd saga BTW is: nice idea, lousy implementation.
My major problem with it is the monolithic mass of code to replace
existing functionality. If it was a modular design and was designed to
be portable across operating systems, then I would have far less
problems with it.

The other major concern is all that new code is also going to bring
along all new nice shiny attack vectors with it.

Simon.

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