[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Dave Froble]

On 2/1/2022 2:56 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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

It is a factor, when Simon wants it to be.  It is not a factor when Simon does 
not want it to be.

He is also good at partially quoting what someone writes, when he wants to 
change the message to what he wants to respond to.

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