[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-02-07 19:14:02 +0000, Arne Vajhj said:

> On 2/7/2018 2:10 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> 
>>    OpenVMS lacks a REST framework and the libwww port was problematic 
>> when I last looked at it.   A REST framework would be a nice addition 
>> to OpenVMS, though.  At a lower — though not necessarily simpler — 
>> level, an OpenVMS framework that deals with IPv4 and IPv6, with DNS, 
>> and with TLS encryption and authentication would be really handy.
> 
> I think you have all that if you are willing to use stuff that start with J.
> 
> :-)

Haven't looked at Julia.    https://julialang.org   Seems a very 
interesting language, though.   Probably didn't mean J++ nor J# there, 
though.   Maybe you meant JavaScript?  That certainly has support for 
this sort of thing, though there's not a whole lot of server-side 
JavaScript support available on OpenVMS.    Wouldn't mind JSON, but 
that's not executable in the absence of parser bugs.   Or did you mean 
Java?   Because Perl, Python, php, JavaScript, Lua and various other 
choices all don't require dealing with Oracle, for those folks that 
would prefer not to.  Nor contending with the Oracle Java support 
policies that are now in place, for the folks using the free versions.  
Java 9 is ending public patch support next month and Java 10 by the end 
of this year, for instance.   Which means many folks will be staying on 
Java 8, if they use Java.   Or paying Oracle for patches.   Or 
upgrading fairly quickly.   But then for the folks that are 
increasingly using Java or some of these other programming languages, 
justifying the choice of OpenVMS can be interesting.

😉




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