[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Tue Feb 1 13:28:15 EST 2022


On 2022-02-01, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 2/1/2022 9:01 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-01-31, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Don't people ever wonder what DEC people were thinking when they wrote VMS?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I do. Then I remember it was written in the 1970s. :-) :-)
>
> What does that have to do with anything?
>

What makes some things about VMS so limiting in the 21st century is
as a direct result of it being designed in the 1970s instead of it
being designed around more modern techniques and concepts.

I believe I may have expressed some opinions in this area previously. :-)

Simon.

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