[Info-vax] VMS Features I Wish Linux Had

[David Froble]

Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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
> 

If a developer doesn't know what's important, what the main purpose of computers 
and applications is, then in my opinion he / she is a rather worthless developer.

Anyone listening to such people is being set up for a fall ....