[Info-vax] C99 updates to CRTL

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-07-31, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 7/31/2019 7:24 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> Interesting.  Y'all like RMS though, right?  Because RMS allows you to 
>> use different apps to access the same (RMS-based) database files.  That 
>> makes RMS and its interpretation of the file formats... common.
>> 
>> RMS is stuck about thirty years back in terms of higher-level access, 
>
> Hmmm.
>
> I would also call the RMS SYS$ calls which is what you have to
> use in C/C++ a bit cumbersome.
>

If you were British, I would call that an excellent example
of British understatement. :-)

> But the Pascal interface is in my opinion as good or better
> than interfaces to modern NoSQL databases.
>

How well do the current crop of NoSQL databases handle resizing
fields in a record and adding fields to a record without having
to rebuild programs or having to make source code changes to allow
programs to continue using the existing data ?

In that regard, RMS itself is strictly in the punched card era with
its fixed record layout without any native abstraction behind that
fixed record layout.

Simon.

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