[Info-vax] Python on VMS

[Dave Froble]

On 1/16/2019 1:17 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <q1nds2$hic$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>
>> Would it be fair to say that the problems for the port is
>> not fundamental (*nix'isms that simply can't be implemented
>> on VMS) but a resource problem (if there were enough VMS
>> enthusiasts working on those libraries then they would be
>> ported)?
>
> It's obviously a resource problem because there is a theorem which says
> that any Turing machine can implement another.  :-)
>

That could have several meanings.

Implement Unix on VMS?  Why not just run Unix?

For software to be portable, the people implementing it need to design 
for such.  From the little I've read, some of those developing for Unix 
don't seem to care if their product can be used on VMS, and sometimes 
use capabilities that will never work on VMS.

Sometimes some things just aren't feasible.

I have to ask, if a product is understood, why not just implement it on 
VMS, using VMS capabilities?  Might be easier.  But then, it would not 
be portable back to whatever.  So what, from a VMS centric perspective?

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