[Info-vax] 64 bit DCL ?

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/16/15 12:26 PM, MG wrote:
> Stephen Hoffman schreef op 16-jan-2015 om 19:24:
>> 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.
>
> That's just great.  :)

PowerShell took a lot of inspiration from DCL; there's no reason the
inspiration couldn't go back the other way as well.