[Info-vax] DCL's flaws (both scripting and UI)

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-18 21:19:35 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> I think it's time once again to build a list of DCL's flaws now that
> VSI are around. Don't forget however that DCL is both a scripting
> language and a UI. My initial list is below.
> 
> Some of DCL's UI flaws:

There's no...

UTF-8
asynchronous processing
floating point
unsigned integers
64-bit integers
binary data
objects
dictionaries
arrays
functions that return values
user-written lexical functions
support for menu-based and graphical-based user interfaces
JIT
compilation
embedding
debugging
DCL libraries
More specific error trapping than ON; let me catch specific errors.

etc...

Simon's command completion and command editing and command history, certainly.

Then there are parts of DCL which are seldom understood or easily misunderstood
scoping
quoting and double-quoting and the two-phase substitution processing
f$getqui


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