[Info-vax] Should VSI create a modern day VMS applications book ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/17/2018 11:51 AM, Neil Rieck wrote:
> Anyway, to answer your original question, VSI would be wise to
> commission some new books and/or republish some existing stuff. For
> example, it was quite easy to do internet programming from BASIC or C
> when we were using the "Application Libraries" associated with
> TCPware. But back in 2014 we were forced to move to MultiNet where
> (like TCPIP Services for OpenVMS) Application Libraries do not exist
> so you need to roll your own code. Now I was able to do this during
> our conversion project from Alpha to Itanium but all the time I
> wondered how VMS newbies would do it.

Yes.

But note that the situation today is slightly different.

There are 3 scenarios:
A) The application is done in a language that comes with such
    libraries standard (Java, other JVM based languages, Python, PHP
    etc.).
B) The application already exists written in C or C++ and just need
    to be made working on VMS.
C) Write from scratch on VMS.

#C is getting less and less relevant over time.

That said then I am still a big fan of adding LIB$HTTP_GET
and LIB$HTTP_POST to VMS.

:-)

Arne