Post by Arne VajhøjPost by Dave FroblePost by John ReaganFor Ada, what I said was: "VSI understands that Ada is very important
to small set of customers. We are still investigating how we can
provide a solution."
For PL/I, I said that "VSI has no ownership in the old PL/I
compiler. That ended up with Tom Linden at Kednos and that Tom
passed away in 2019 I believe".
In my personal opinion, I think we should provide/support/encourage
an Ada product for OpenVMS. I'm a fan of strong typing. That's why
I'm also a Rust fan. It was also mentioned and I think I replied
that I've been in touch with the Rust developers.
I prefer Basic. It does what I tell it to do, not what it thinks I
should do.
I don't see Rust and VMS Basic as alternatives for each other.
Rust will compete with what C, C++, Ada etc. for metal near code.
VMS Basic is for writing business code and alternatives are
more Pascal, Cobol, PL/I and the new stuff (JVM languages,
Python, PHP etc.).
Well - C/C++ has also been used for business code, but
"misused" may be more accurate.
Arne
Must be interesting to see the definition of "business code", vs "????".
I'm thinking the following header from a tool might not fit any such
description?
!
********************************************************************
!
! Program: RMS_LOCKS.BAS
! Function: Watch RMS Locks
! Version: 1.00
! Created: 10-May-2001
! Author(s): David Froble
! Dave Froble Enterprises, Inc.
!
! Purpose/description:
!
! This program will scan the lock database selecting
! RMS created locks. It will build data structures
! for filenames, opens, locks, and blocked locks.
!
! A user can select to see the entire data structure,
! files, opens, and locks, or just blocked locks.
!
!********************************************************************
But, what do I know ????
How about a messaging utility?
!********************************************************************
!
! Program: TQUMAN.BAS
! Function: TQUMAN - Message Queue Manager
! Version: 2.00
! Created: 09-Nov-88
! Author(s): Dave Froble
!
! Purpose/description:
!
! This program will run detached to manage the
! system message queue file.
!
!********************************************************************
Then again, I guess just about anything could be considered "business".
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