[Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re: improving EDT

[Kerry Main]

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> From: Info-vax [mailto:info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com] On Behalf
> Of John Reagan via Info-vax
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> Cc: John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Variable declarations, was: Re: improving
> EDT
> 
> On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 8:35:51 PM UTC-5, Arne
> Vajhøj wrote:
> 
> >
> > Pascal was a huge teaching language before OOP. Never hit it in
> > business.
> >
> 
> Not true on OpenVMS.  Our Pascal has lots of useful extensions
> (but not OOP) that made it popular with many customers.  I can
> easily name several customers today with at least 10 million lines
> of Pascal code.  I gotta worry about them too just like all the
> BASIC customers (and I know several customers with millions of
> lines of BASIC).
> 
> When I gave my "elevator speech" at the LLVM conference about
> hooking our frontends to LLVM, I get the most shock at the
> mention of actually having a working BASIC compiler that is used
> for actual production code.
> 

If interested, contact me offline and I can provide the name of a large ISP / cable TV / cell phone provider with over 4M customers (a few years back, number likely larger now) that runs their core work flow on an active-active 8 node ES45 + 2 Integrity server OpenVMS multi-site cluster.

Their prod core code is primarily Basic and RMS files. Yes, they would love to get to a DB, but for all its faults, direct RMS calls are very fast. 

And this is not legacy type environment. It is highly dynamic. When I was there a number of years back, they would do an average of 2 new code enhancement pkgs per month.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com