[Info-vax] portable sequential file formats (was: Re: Couple of questions on VMS -> world)

[johnson.eric at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, March 17, 2015 at 1:00:04 PM UTC-4, li... at openmailbox.org wrote:

> Agreed. I don't understand how anybody can use Linux or most UNIX in
> production for anything. 

But clearly it's been done and continues to be done. At quite large scales too.
I think of organizations such as Amazon, Twitter, Facebook, Google. Perhaps
you are focusing on the wrong things.

> But it's still UNIX so it suffers from the same lack of naming conventions 
> and where Sun hasn't fixed [...]

While annoying at times, it's really not a deal breaker. It's at most a temporary
speed bump for some. 

> And they're all based on C which is the root of all evil- it's
> not *if* something bad is going to happen it's just when and how often.

I think you need to separate your disgust at elements of the standard C 
library from that of the language itself.

EJ