[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2016-06-12 kl. 21:11, skrev Johnny Billquist:
> On 2016-06-12 21:03, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
>> Den 2016-06-12 kl. 17:14, skrev Johnny Billquist:
>>> Well, here is another thought for you.
>>> Who are the ones trying to move off from VMS? I doubt it's the users who
>>> don't even know what a file is, much less a command line interface.
>>>
>>> It's more likely the few persons who actually know what a command line
>>> interface is, and who are doing development, who are the ones that
>>> want to
>>> move to something else...
>>
>> No, it is those paying the bills and matching the cost against the value
>> for the site, and they know aboslutely nothing about VMS. The fact that
>> the current systems serves the site very well at a low cost, is the
>> reason the systems are still there. The fact that they run VMS doesn't
>> matter, as long as that fact doesn't become an issue in itself.
>>
>> The risk of not beeing able to get competent people to work with the
>> systems is a far larger "risk" then missing file name completion.
>
> I think that was the point I was trying to make. :-)
>
>> As long as the work and cost to replace the systems is far higher then
>> to continuing using them, they'll stay. Byt then, we also have to show
>> they we can follow the stream with web interfaces and other integration
>> and cooperative features. File name completion is not such an feature.
>
> No. But if developers do not want to work on the system, you will never get
> the functions, and developers usually use the command line interface.
>
>     Johnny
>

Developing is sometimes having three fixed commands (edit, build and run)
and swapping between them with up-arrow with no line editing at all... :-)

Anyway, I can not go to my customer and saying that the support fees now
has rised becuse we now have got file name completion. That is the issue.