[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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