[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-02-01 19:28, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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. :-)

This kind of argument always have the same problem that Unix is even 
older. Does that mean Unix have an even larger problem?

Or is this in fact not a factor in there?

   Johnny