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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-06-29, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 6/26/2021 2:53 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 6/25/2021 10:02 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> I'll just address my opinion of threads.  Not saying they are useless, 
>>> but, if the OS, VMS, already gives me separate "threads" called 
>>> processes, why do I want the aggravation of re-inventing it inside my 
>>> apps?
>>>
>>> I'm sure someone will cry out "performance", but, with today's 
>>> processors, performance is most likely a rare issue.
>> 
>> Threading provides a very convenient programming model.
>> 
>> Shared heap is a lot easier than IPC.
>
> And if Basic is better than English.
>

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Yeah, good luck getting David to write Basic code which looks like that. :-)

Simon.

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