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Subject: Re: Anti-Ada FUD (rant)
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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 *ve=
ry* competently designed. The NT team was lead by Dave Cutler, of DEC fame.=
=20
>=20
> 	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.)
>=20
> 	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, obviou=
sly, 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/.ob=
j}] stored in a database isn't "the right way" to do things.)