[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[DaveFroble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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
> 

Yes, and they were good, for their time.  But there was a vast potential that 
was ignored.

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