[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[johnson.eric at gmail.com]

On Friday, December 14, 2018 at 10:16:57 AM UTC-5, gérard Calliet wrote:
 
> Done. I'm beginning to understand the "goal" here, at c.o.v.: some 
> bitter discussions between "old men".
> 
> And, no, no, you are proving you are older than all, here. The war 
> between the old and the modern is the oldest war, the most sterile, and 
> the most absurd.

For me the main issue that I see here is a persistent desire to not learn
something new because "we've always done it that way".

For example, have you learned a new programming language? There are
so many to pick from. Consider rust, ruby, perl, python, go, swift,
haskell, OCaml, Objective C, or a fresh look at C++-17. I'm sure there are
others too. We are living in an era of a language explosion which is good.

How about a new IDE? Eclipse? Atom? Even Visual Studio deserves a
fresh look now too. I'm an old emacs guy myself, but have gone through
a refresh with the latest packages like projectile, helm, and org-mode. 

How about a new source code management tool? Have you tried git,
mercury, perforce (which is available on VMS!), bitkeeper? How 
about things like phabricator or other code review tools? Jenkins and
continuous integration? Google mock or google test for unit tests?

How about a new file system? btrfs? ext4? zfs? xfs? Or various
package managers? yum? Or linux distros?

Have you tried things like github, gitlab, or a cloud service like
digital ocean, microsoft's azure, or bigquery from google?

How about things like mongodb, redshift, or other nosql like
solutions?

Maybe you have, but based on so much of the commentary I see here,
it looks like everything could be summed up as - was good then, still
good now.

EJ