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

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Wed Jun 30 20:02:25 EDT 2021


On 6/30/2021 10:48 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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:
>>>>> 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).
> 
> Guess you never learned to use comments, huh?

If anyone is interested I can add comments to the code
explaining what it does.

Arne





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