[Info-vax] WEENDOZE question

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 02/07/2018 10:04 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <p5f2u4$21d$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>> On 2/7/2018 9:13 AM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> In article <fe0aknFuc11U1 at mid.individual.net>, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> writes:
>>>> In this day and age, why would you assume anything other than
>>>> Excel in the real business world?
>>>
>>> Amazon, eBay, and myriad other W3 businesses would surely lose a significant
>>> amount of business assuming such.  The handheld is the way folks shop in the
>>> second decade of the 21st century.  They're even processing plastic payments
>>> ( credit and debit cards) with handheld devices in the second decade of the
>>> 21st century.   The last time I surveyed that landscape it was dominated by
>>> Android and Apple.  To paraphase a popular credit card company's ad slogan,
>>> "What's in your hand?"
>>
>> Information search, email reading, some shopping etc. are often done
>> on phones/tablets today.
>>
>> Office work is still typical done on Windows PC's.
> 
> I don't do any office work on WEENDOZE! ;)

He said typically.  When it comes to modern computing you are
the most atypical person I know.

> 
> Is there a reason why everyone is so against using standards?
> 

I don't know, ask old DEC supporters.  With languages like DIBOL
and BLISS and compilers so loaded with extensions that the code
written for them hardly even looks like the language they claim
to be that would surly be the pot calling the kettle black.

bill