[Info-vax] 64 bit DCL ?

[JF Mezei]

On 15-01-18 15:34, David Froble wrote:

> Depending upon perspective, I'd argue that DCL is not really tied or 
> part of VMS. 

Hoff pointed out that the CLI parsing routines, used by applications to
get their arguments, are part of VMS run time, not part of DCL.EXE


Except for the TCPIP utilities, just about every utility/application
that is packaged with VMS is built to call on the DCL parsing routines
to get their arguments.  And inside many utilities, the symtax also
makes use of DCL parsing.   Same with "HELP and the utilities providing
help from within.  And HELP is one of VMS' strong points compared to all
others on the market today.

Try finding the man page that describes the loop operator "for" in bash.

So it looks to me like VMS and DCL  are married at the hip.