XBR2YD15@DDATHD21.BITNET (Knobli_2) (07/08/86)
Hallo,
I've followed the VMS/UNIX discussion on this list for the last few
weeks (first with interest, now a little bored (because of the
repeating (and sometimes (a little bit too) polemic) arguments)).
This morning it reached the point to add my own (boring and polemic)
little opinions on the subject.
1.) Keith (KFL%MX......) wrote that he wondered why he has to write
unFortranish code to do unFortranish things in Fortran. I can't
see his point. Fortran was never designed to do system programming.
It is a language (and a great too (I hope I'm allowed to say this
without loosing my CS-degree)) for computational purposes (hi Jim).
I've been using VMS/FORTRAN for system programming for several (4)
years now with no problems at all (except recursive problems), but
I've never expected that my programs will look like standard
Fortran. I sometimes have probles with they VMS documentation, but
never with the VMS stuff. If it's to coplicated for Fortran, I write
a little Macro routine (it's great to have an Os where you can easyly
mix ANY language that compiles into the common object code format).
2.) I like VMS, because I can do a lot of complicated things (even in
Fortran). Sometimes it's complicated to do comlicated things, but
I think that's in the nature of complicated things.
3.) I know only little a about UNIX. This is the reason that I don't dare
to say that UNIX is good or bad, or that I like or hate it.
4.) I know FORTRAN very well, I know C a little, I prefer Modula-2 and
I can't see any reasons to discuss this topic on this list (I also
can't see a reason for the Os debate on this list (maybe I'm blind,
or just stupid)). I've thougth that INFO-VAX was intended for the
discussion of VAX news and problems (ok. The operating system can
be a problem for a computer), but the last two last two weeks I
haven't seen much news or problems.
5.) Can we please drop the subject in the NEAR future?
Regards
Martin Knoblauch
TH-Darmstadt
Dept. Physical Chemistry 1
Petersenstrasse 20
D-6100 Darmstadt
West-Germany
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