[Info-vax] DCL, was: Re: Microkernel

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2012-08-14 20:16:00 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> Quite a bit of what I am asking for can be done in a different way with
> DCL, even if it's not as elegant as under bash. However, it's all the
> little things in bash which come together as a whole and produce, for
> me, a seamless workflow and it's really hard to describe the resultant
> whole unless you have experienced it.

Quite true.

By far, bash is much more arcane, and DCL is both more awkward and more 
limited.

As an(other) example of a limitation of DCL, the lack of regular 
expressions.  Once you start using these, you'll find DCL lacking here.

> I think it's a case of not missing something you have never been
> exposed to.

Correct.

It's also why trying out other tools and other platforms can be valuable.

> (And, yes, I accept the workflow of other people will be
> different from my own and hence they may not put as much emphasis on
> these capabilities even if they were exposed to them.)

Yes.

These differences of experiences and requirements are also at the core 
of why the answer that JF gets for computing might be (is) different 
than the answer that somebody else might get.  Why some folks use 
OpenVMS, and some use RHES, some Windows, some OS X, etc.


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