[Info-vax] Roadmap

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/6/2019 6:56 AM, gezelter at rlgsc.com wrote:
> On Saturday, January 5, 2019 at 9:19:06 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/5/2019 8:23 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> Maybe the D_FLOAT isn't so bad, if you're not doing a lot of work with it.
>>
>> Basic is probably not a favorite language for number crunchers, so
>> most likely the practical impact is minimal.
>>
>> It is possible though to create an example showing a difference:

> BASIC is still popular in some quarters, where it is used for serious
> systems. I have had more than a few clients who meet this
> description.
I am sure.

But I would expect most of them to be in the business domain
not in the number crunching domain.

> In many ways, interoperability of one form or another is the most
> important use of the different formats. Some have historical data
> files. Some have mixed-architecture OpenVMS clusters. Others exchange
> binary data with other systems, on the same or different machine, of
> the same or different organization.
Of course. But that is more IO than calculation.

And then it does not matter.

Arne