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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 4/15/22 22:10, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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?
> 

Like maybe, IBM zSystem running COBOL with CICS and a DB2 backend.

bill