[Info-vax] 64 bit DCL ?

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In article <m9bkvh$tb0$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>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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