Re: Macro code

From: Neil Rieck (n.rieck_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 09/02/05 

Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:46:07 -0400

"Dave Froble" <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote in message
news:11her0angaj8k57@corp.supernews.com...
> gleason@encompasserve.org wrote:
>> In article <11he7rps3tb7mfb@corp.supernews.com>, Dave Froble
>> <davef@tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>
>>>Neil Rieck wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Getting back to your question, if you are doing any low-level stuff like
>>>>writing a device driver, then languages like C or BLISS are the only way
>>>>to go. You would never use HP-BASIC to produce something like an Apache
>>>>web-server. :-)
>>>
>>>'Never' is a bit too strong of a word to use in the above.
>>>
>>>Basic could be used to implement a web server. There is nothing like
>>>that now since most such software originates on non-VMS systems.
>>>
>>
>>
>> HP Basic, with its excellent dynamic string handling capabilities, and
>> easy and flexible interface to RMS files, seems like a natural for
>> writing a web server...I'd pick it over C any day.
>
> All a web server is, is a program that accepts incoming connection
> requests, grants a connection, and satisfy's requests. The implementation
> should be rather easy. It's the specification of what it should be set up
> to do that's the hard part. Uh.. make that very hard part.
>
> I've done some services and clients that use sockets for communication.
> Written in Basic and uses the system service routines for socket
> communications. It's the sissy C programmers that have to have a socket
> library. :-)
>

I've used BASIC to do quite a bit of work with TCPware (both Telnet and FTP)
but realize that C does seem to have its place in Open-Source projects like
Apache.

Neil Rieck
Kitchener/Waterloo/Cambridge,
Ontario, Canada.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/

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