[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/17/2018 6:46 AM, johnson.eric at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
>

You're most likely correct, to some extent.  But, I really cannot 
resist.  How many sides do you have on your "new" wheels?

-- 
David Froble                       Tel: 724-529-0450
Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.      E-Mail: davef at tsoft-inc.com
DFE Ultralights, Inc.
170 Grimplin Road
Vanderbilt, PA  15486