Re: Macro code

From: Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing (winston_at_SSRL.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU)
Date: 09/02/05 

Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 00:08:18 GMT

In article <ybMRe.8570$884.761085@news20.bellglobal.com>, "Neil Rieck" <n.rieck@sympatico.ca> writes:
>"Dave Froble" <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote in message
>news:11he7rps3tb7mfb@corp.supernews.com...
>> 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.
>
>You could also implement a web server in DCL but I can't think of any reason
>why you would want to :-)

But if you wanted to be equally silly, there's at least one web server
implemented in Perl, which ought to run on VMS with libwww.

-- Alan

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