[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/16/2022 7:47 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-10-16, <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> <kemain.nospam at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Also, replacing a compiled application with an interpreted language??
> 
> It's not the fact that Python is an interpreted language as multiple
> languages started out as interpreted languages.
> 
> It's the fact that Python was designed for scripting tasks with everything
> that implies. Python was not designed with the language features needed
> to write large critical applications.

Getting data out of one system, doing some data transformation and
putting data into another system is a scripting task!

> Mind you, OTOH, someone thought it was a good idea to create an ecosystem
> for writing server-side Javascript. :-(

You can always develop on TypeScript.

Arne