[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/15/2018 1:14 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-12-15 17:08:48 +0000, John Reagan said:
>
>> The spread of OpenVMS languages is not what the rest of the world
>> expects.
>
> There's no small difference between the expectations and experiences of
> the current OpenVMS installed base and those of others.

Probably rather true.  VMS users demand better.

> Also part of why porting off of OpenVMS is often expensive.

Because other systems don't provide reasonable capabilities?

> And why porting onto OpenVMS is often expensive.

Because other systems use unreasonable capabilities?

> OpenVMS is weird.  And at times, not in a good way.

Why, because it hasn't (at least totally) accepted that C is everything?

Why, because of those who say "we want standards", and then declare 
"Unix is the standard"?

I'm curious, how many other systems are you aware of that have a common 
calling standard, such that routines in different languages can easily 
be used together?

Hmmm...  perhaps not even VMS, since C doesn't really conform.


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