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

[Dave Froble]

On 6/30/2021 9:22 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 6/30/2021 8:04 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>> [snip example]
>>
>> Yeah, good luck getting David to write Basic code which looks like
>> that. :-)
>
> Well - I could not do it in VMS basic because:
> 1) I am not good enough in VMS Basic
> 2) VMS Basic does not support multi-threading
>
> So I went for a Basic that does support multi-threading: VB.NET.
> Which accidentally solved my skill problem as well as I can write
> the code in C# and auto convert to VB.NET (with a little post-conversion
> polish).
>
> Arne
>
>

Guess you never learned to use comments, huh?

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