[Info-vax] Listeners in VMS Basic, was: Re: Integrity iLO Configuration?

[Chris Townley]

On 25/06/2021 18:40, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-06-25, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> I still believe that a multi-threaded listener doing IPC with
>> workers is the right design.
>>
>> The workers can be VMS Basic.
>>
>> But you will need something else for the listener.
>>
> 
> We know VMS Basic is no good for normal multi-threaded coding.
> 
> Is it any good at AST coding ? If so, instead of a multi-threaded listener,
> perhaps an AST based listener could be used to handle the workers instead.
> 
> BTW, David, just how noisy _is_ your new Itanium ? :-)
> 
> Simon.
> 

VMS Basic is fine with ASTs - we had loads of code that used them

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Chris