[Info-vax] Long uptime cut short by Hurricane Sandy

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-01-31, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2013-01-30, Richard B. Gilbert <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> wrote:
>> On 1/30/2013 2:56 PM, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
>>>>>>> [1] Does anybody have a suggestion for a collective noun
>>>>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_for_birds> for
>>>>>>> DCL procedures?  A collection of DCL procedures?  A nest?  Wad?
>>>>>>> Accretion?  Scrum?  Heap?
>>>
>>> A FISTful of procedures?
>>>
>>
>> Assuming that this is serious, what about a "Library"
>
> No. A library is where you put things that are designed to be readable.
>

I suppose I'd better explain that comment. :-)

I try to write my DCL procedures to be as readable and as maintainable as
possible, but when I use other scripting languages on Linux and then come
back to DCL, it feels rather like trying to write using assembly language
when writing DCL code.

The end result is the DCL procedure is cluttered with various workarounds
and low level coding structures needed to handle the limits of DCL.

Simon.

PS: I still use assmebly languages when required (startup code, interrupt
wrapper code, inline code, etc), but what I don't do is try to write full
programs (or even drivers) in it these days. :-)

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