[Info-vax] 64 bit DCL ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-16 16:59:51 +0000, Keith Cayemberg said:

> Hmmm, I have reconsidered the choice of QUADINT as a reserved word for 
> DCL. It would probably be more correct to use QUADWORD or just QUAD.

Or DCL is deprecated, and replaced with a command language that's more 
consistent and tightly specified, and with modern features and 
extensibility.

A command language with the ability to generate WIMP and HTML 
interfaces and process the associated input, asynch I/O and 
notifications without needing SPAWN or such, support for manipulating 
binary data, data structures including classes and objects and arrays 
and dictionaries, native TCP and UDP socket support, regular 
expressions, full UTF-8 access, internationalization, a JIT-capable 
interpreter and also with a compiler and a debugger that makes the 
command language a first-class citizen of the mixed-language 
environment, pipes without needing the PIPE verb, integration with the 
as-yet-unimplemented VMS cluster-distributed event notification system, 
etc.

Yeah, and being able to deal with quadwords and floating point would be 
nice, too.




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