[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-05-04, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2021-05-04, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 5/4/2021 1:41 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Configuration file libraries are available for all
>>> the modern languages also on VMS. But given how
>>> much VMS code is still in Cobol/Pascal/Basic/Fortran/C
>>> then a builtin native library may be nice to have.
>>
>> Which of course would start WW III between the
>> XML people, the JSON people and the YAML people.
>>
>
> JSON is better than XML IMHO. I just find it a lot easier to work with.
>
> As for YAML, I've just read up about it and it looks like it was
> created by the same people who created INTERCAL.
>

Clarification: I don't mean that the INTERCAL authors literally created
YAML which is what the above could imply. I meant it looks about as user
friendly as INTERCAL.

Simon.

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