[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Wed Jan 24 10:38:36 EST 2018


On 01/24/2018 10:29 AM, DaveFroble wrote:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> Just like I said about COBOL.  It isn't that languages like COBOL and
>> Fortran are decreasing, it is that there are dozens of new languages
>> du jour that people with little knowledge of IT think are cool and so
>> they write billions of lines of crap skewing the scale against serious
>> languages.  Or do you think "Candy Crush Saga" and "Forge of Empires"
>> constitute serious IT?
> 
> Ayep!
> 
> There is nothing wrong with games and such.  They also serve people's 
> needs. But "real work", whatever that is, just might favor tools that 
> have always been used.
> 
> While it might seem so to some people, browsers and web servers is not 
> all there is to IT.
> 
> OTOH, if DEC would have taken games seriously, perhaps they'd still be 
> around.
> 

What do you mean "take games seriously"?  I had Adventure, Nethack and
Rogue on VMS.  What else would you need?

bill




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