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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/4/2021 2:13 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.

YAML is actually quite popular for config files today.

:-)

Arne