[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Richard Maher]

On 26-Jan-18 2:45 AM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> 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.
> 

VMS has far too much catching up on server functionality to be 
distracted by the folly of a browser. It isn't cheap to develope and 
maintain a browser you know? How many employees do you think VSI has?

Ask yourself this would you prefer: -
a) VMS on demand in the cloud with unlimited scalability
b) A poorly performing feature starved half-arsed browser