[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/15/2022 7:17 PM, Richard Maher wrote:
> On 15/04/2022 8:44 pm, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 4/15/2022 3:36 AM, Richard Maher wrote:
>>> On 15/04/2022 10:37 am, Galen wrote:
>>>> Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> COBOL evangelism, Love of protected subsystems (eg RMS, Rdb), 
>>>>> Depression and PTSD after years of VMS abuse, dreams of VMS
>>>>> backend resurgence. . .
>>>>
>>>> What precisely, I dare ask, are you dreaming about VMS back
>>>> ends?
>>>
>>> Something like Kestrel that talks HTTP and can pass JSON to 3GL
>>> code a la mode de TIER3. FIDO2 Authentication support. To start . .
>>> .
>>
>> Both Java and Python can provide nice embedded HTTP servers, do JSON 
>> and potentially interact with native code (Cobol or otherwise), but 
>> obvious question is whether it wouldn't be better to do it all in 
>> either Java or Python.
> 
> This is the biggest mistake VMS has made for 20 years; throw away the 
> existing customer base :-(

Using the right tool for the job is hardly throwing away the
customer base.

Cobol, Basic, Pascal, C etc. is just not the optimal language
for writing a new web service.

Not on any platform.

Arne