[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 12:13:37 +0000, chrisq wrote:

> On 1/8/24 02:36, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 00:31:33 +0000, chrisq wrote:
>> 
>>> No systemd either.
>> 
>> Shame. With all their smarts, they never thought to implement something
>> as clever as that.
> 
> Clever ?, debatable. More like an impenetrable trainwreck.

Remember, it became popular across a whole bunch of distros entirely 
through its own merits, not because there was some dominant, faceless 
MegaCorp pushing it on everybody.

> A whole shedload of complexity, for no good reason, and goes against all
> principles of unix.

Go on, tell us what “principles of unix” these might be ...

> ... via xml scripts, in the Sun case.

Really?? Your answer for something preferable to systemd’s nice, simple 
INI-format files is ... XML?!!?