[Info-vax] Building for Customers, Revenue

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <Gk3Rv.135449$412.107582 at fx30.iad>, Shark8
<OneWingedShark at gmail.com> writes: 

> On 9/13/2014 9:11 AM, helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip 
> Helbig---undress to reply) wrote:
> > These days, that means a browser and little else:http://xkcd.com/934/  :-|
> 
> "The Web" is a pretty terrible platform, in addition to its inherent 
> instability most of the tools/implementation-languages [re JS and PHP] 
> have little to zero consideration for:
> * Consistency [across modules]
> * Types [strong typing, somewhat related to the above; certainly the 
> front-/back-end interchange could use a common type-system to 
> verify/validate input]
> * Versioning [part of consistency]
> * DSA [Distributed Systems]

One can, of course, write CGI scripts in Fortran, DCL, SQL using Rdb 
etc.