[Info-vax] HP Integrity rx2800 i4 (2.53GHz/32.0MB) :: PAKs won't load

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On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 12:35:00 -0500
Stephen Hoffman via Info-vax <info-vax at rbnsn.com> wrote:

> "Which brings me to another point about calling bullshit. The state of 
> the art in the Rails world is full of hard-won simplifications. It's 
> incredibly easy to devolve and regress from that. While Java certainly 
> isn't a pinnacle of language design, it took quite a few years of 
> devolution to go from something relatively simple like servlets to the 
> steaming pile of shit that is J2EE. And every tiny step of the way 
> probably seemed somewhat reasonable at the time to reasonable people.
> 
> If we don't call bullshit loud and often against what's perceived as 
> putting us on this path of devolution, which imo is the standard 
> trajectory of software, then we will end up exactly where they did. In 
> Kompleksistan with no map to find our way back."  — David Heinemeier 
> Hansson.

Priceless. Are you guys related?

> OpenVMS is somewhere deep into "Kompleksistan" now, and more than a few 
> of those but-it's-compatible features often added to the complexity.   
> If folks here learn nothing from the Continuing Adventures of Bill, 
> it's this.  There haven't been enough new OpenVMS folks posting around 
> here to keep rubbing your respective noses in this mess, either.

Don't worry, that will change as soon as VMS is ported to the planned
commodity crapware platform.