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

[Dave Froble]

On 4/15/2022 7:25 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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

Really depends on the web service, doesn't it?

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