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

[Dave Froble]

On 5/5/2021 1:47 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-05-05, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm not exactly sure just what "nested associative arrays" might be.
>> Perhaps it's just the terminology.  So I won't directly address that
>> which I do not understand.
>>
>
> A nested associative array is an associative array that is in a data
> element of another associative array. In other words, the second
> associative array is nested inside the first associative array.
>
> You could extend this to have multiple layers of nested associative
> arrays.
>
>> What I will say is that I tend to keep things as simple and easily
>> understood as possible.  At some time, someone else might need to
>> understand things.  If they cannot, what use is the thing?
>>
>> I don't like "smart people".  Usually they think they are much smarter
>> than they actually are.  All too often they just screw things up.  I
>> really like the KISS principal.
>>
>
> In some cases, using nested associative arrays _is_ simpler and easier
> to process than the alternative approaches if the language supports
> the construct.
>
> Simon.
>

Yeah, yeah, I'm aware.  I just find such to be very easily difficult to 
understand.  As an example, my RMS_LOCKS utility uses multiple linked 
and nested linked lists.  No matter how hard I tried to keep it easy to 
understand, the subject matter just didn't allow that.  Sometimes simple 
just isn't very easy, or possible.

Regardless, when setting up data, I try very hard to keep it as simple 
as possible.  I really didn't like any of the three things mentioned in 
this thread.  Maybe it's just me.

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