[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-06-12 21:16, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 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.

I don't have any easy answers. But not having developers wanting to work 
on a system *is* a problem.

	Johnny

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