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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-10-17 01:53, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 10/16/2022 7:32 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
>> Also, replacing a compiled application with an interpreted language??
> 
> Python for data processing? Sure! Why not!
> 
> There is a company called Google that until a few years ago
> processed all the public web pages in the world with Python.

No. They did not.
Google used/use Python for a bunch of stuff, but it was decided almost 
10 years ago that no new stuff should be written in Python. And even 
back then, most scraping and processing was in C++. Python was used for 
other bits and pieces. But not for processing everything that Google 
scraped.

The reason for stop using Python was several. Performance was one part, 
but much more it was realized that large software systems become really 
hard to develop in a safe way, or maintain, using Python. It's not 
really suitable for any of this. It's nice for small, simple programs 
you want to throw together quickly.

   Johnny