[Info-vax] Development Tooling (was: Re: Opportunity for VSI?)

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <pv5u3p$ilh$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
<seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes: 

> > ...Many people do...namely people who write their own 
> > applications.  They need an OS and  a compiler, that's it...
> 
> That's true, as far as it goes.  Developers can work with an operating 
> system and just a compiler.  Though developers are a fickle lot.

It's true for essentially all of scientific computing; all 
"applications" are written by the "developers".  No-one cares about a 
bells-and-whistles spreadsheet or whatever.

> Developer expectations have moved on from what OpenVMS offers.  The 
> classic OpenVMS edit-compile-link-debug development cycle isn't all 
> that popular, these days.

True, but it might be better.