[Info-vax] inertia or fundamentals about langages?

[gérard Calliet]

Le 22/05/2019 à 15:19, Dave Froble a écrit :
> I've got no problem with improvements.
Exact. Not at all the problem here.

The quarrel between the old and the modern is just absurd. The old are 
totaly wrong if they think nothing has to change. The modern are totaly 
wrong if they think we have to reinvent the wheel.

VMS cultur gives us the opportunity to combine huge experience, long and 
well based story with the new necessities. It's exactly the meaning of 
the x86 port.

And I dare say because of this opportunity a new deal of fundamental 
research is reopened. Commercial and general context are important, but 
the way to the future will be wined also because we'll remember the old 
days where Digital Journal and Digital Labs were a scientific reference. 
Yes, not today. But - an example from thousand - the way Camiel, with 
the help of the ancients, re-did what have be done for Alpha and for 
Itanium is a master piece in computer science.

All I'm telling here about "inertia" could be abstracted by a french 
sentence: "ne jetez pas le bébé avec l'eau du bain" (use google 
translate). And also don't forget, "inertia", well understood By 
Descartes, was on its time a very *modern* concept. Things can be 
complicated :)