[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 2/9/2018 12:22 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2018-02-09 15:18, Bob Koehler wrote:
>> In article <p5k3ou$t41$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist 
>> <bqt at softjar.se> writes:
>>> Isn't it good to be on a system where this need was covered already at
>>> the OS, and not becomes a specific functionality located just inside
>>> each tool?
>>>
>>
>>     The functionality f a good CM tool and the functionality of versions
>>     are different.  The implementaions are different.  What jobs they are
>>     good for are different.
>>
>>     I want both.
> 
> Indeed. And so do I. And so do, obviously a lot of people, since both 
> integration with a version control system, *and* file versioning is 
> available in Eclipse. My point was merely that the file versioning thing 
> is something I'm much happier with having already implemented at the OS 
> level, and not to have Eclipse provide such a functionality for me.

Having the OS provide it make sit uniform across applications.

But it also expose the mechanism outside the application understanding
it. Which comes with some risk.

Arne