[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/23/2018 10:38 AM, jaybraun2.0 at gmail.com wrote:
> My take on JavaScript and node.js:
> 
> Far more helpful for OpenVMS to remain a viable server-side option using existing OpenVMS tools (perhaps on cloud-hosted instances, as discussed in  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.vms/5kbEMaoxZZk%5B1-25%5D ) while enabling web interfaces for browsers running on commodity OSes.
> 
> I regularly use virtual CentOS servers -- one hosted by AWS, and one by Linode -- but interface through a small Ubuntu VM running on my Windows 10 laptop.  If I still made use of legacy OpenVMS applications, this is how I would prefer to interact with them.
> 
> My point:  For web applications, emphasis should be on server-side APIs for existing languages.  Is OpenVMS really the platform on which you want to run your browser?
> 
> j
> 

Some of us don't see a problem there.  :-)
When I ran VMS at the University (until forced to retire it)
I always liked VMS as my Desktop.

bill