From: Shark8 <onewingedshark@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2013 23:21:19 -0700 (PDT)
Date: 2013-09-27T23:21:19-07:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53272638-d56f-460e-a10c-045c96a88de5@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <q17449da41g1090d8f6fgjk530mqc4i6ng@4ax.com>
On Tuesday, September 24, 2013 5:18:33 PM UTC-6, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 23:38:32 -0700 (PDT), krfkeith wrote:
> >
> >I love the laughable claim that WinNT is poorly designed. While some of the userland has left some to be desired, the core of the NT systems is *very* competently designed. The NT team was lead by Dave Cutler, of DEC fame.
>
> The internals may be good -- though I could wish for even more of VMS
> to have been "ported"... Like (common) event flag clusters, IPC via
> mailboxes, and maybe even the entire QIO system... Somehow the objects
> that WinNT+ uses for "wait" don't feel natural to me, and the divorced
> socket I/O system show a few warts (select only works on sockets, need a
> different API for files, etc.)
>
> But the failure to provide a decent command shell scripting capability
> (a la DCL) saddled it. PowerShell finally makes an apologetic entry (Pity
> my main use is a glorified "find":
> get-childitem -path "xxx" -filter "*.ext" | select-string -pattern "yyy"
> )
You know, I've heard a lot of good stuff about VMS (and DEC's Ada compiler) -- kinda makes me wish I had first-hand experience with them. (And, obviously, the R-1000, that sounds like a *very* interesting setup to me... and I'm not convinced that having "the library" [and source, and objects {.o/.obj}] stored in a database isn't "the right way" to do things.)
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Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 22:18 Anti-Ada FUD (rant) krfkeith
2013-09-20 22:47 ` Adam Beneschan
2013-09-20 23:32 ` John B. Matthews
2013-09-21 12:06 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-22 0:47 ` gautier_niouzes
2013-09-22 21:24 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 4:43 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 5:14 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-23 6:05 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 23:19 ` Nasser M. Abbasi
2013-09-24 7:10 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:00 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 7:55 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:31 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 8:37 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-23 8:52 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 8:59 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-23 11:31 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-29 1:04 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-24 1:40 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-24 7:05 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 7:34 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-24 7:49 ` Bill Richards
2013-09-24 10:47 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 10:38 ` Georg Bauhaus
2013-09-24 15:39 ` Paul Rubin
2013-09-28 23:28 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 5:55 ` Shark8
2013-09-23 6:12 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 7:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 8:36 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 9:36 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2013-09-23 9:39 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 12:16 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 12:54 ` Bill Findlay
2013-09-23 14:32 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-23 22:06 ` Peter C. Chapin
2013-09-29 1:00 ` Shmuel Metz
2013-09-23 7:26 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-24 6:03 ` Shark8
2013-09-24 7:51 ` Peter Brooks
2013-09-26 20:58 ` erlo
2013-09-24 6:38 ` krfkeith
2013-09-24 23:18 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2013-09-28 6:21 ` Shark8 [this message]
2013-09-28 14:40 ` Per Sandberg
2013-09-28 21:54 ` Dennis Lee Bieber
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