[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <z85ZM4dUHfQf at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: 

> In article <p48l8h$31u$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > Not a single cent more should be spent on a browser for VMS except to 
> > decommission them.
> > 
> 
>    For you, maybe.  But I could not disagree more.

I could also not disagree more.  "Desktop to Datacenter" was a good 
motto.  Yes, one can get around the lack of a good browser on VMS.  On 
the other hand, any Turing machine can emulate another.  I was recently 
reading a book by Steven Weinberg where he mentioned a Turing-complete 
cellular automaton which one can code in a few lines (I'll do it in DCL 
or Fortran soon).  But that doesn't mean that workarounds are the best 
way to do things.  There are many advantage of having the browser run on 
the same platform where other things are done.

It's probably not a good idea to do a port of some browser to VMS then 
try to keep up by integrating VMS into the main code.  This works for 
(UN)ZIP, but wouldn't for a browser.