[Info-vax] 64 bit DCL ?

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

cmexec at gmail.com skrev den 2015-01-19 15:01:
> On Sunday, January 18, 2015 at 2:09:06 PM UTC-5, VAXman- wrote:
>
>> I think it would be wonderful to be able to "compile" a DCL procedure to
>> make some sort of executable image.  It could be possible but not without
>> control of DCL itself because there's much in the CLI that would need to
>> be called upon and it's not easily feasible without that control.
>
> IIRC, there was a third party product which did just that.  Transpiled the DCL
> into Fortran, so you had to have the Fortran compiler.  I wonder what
> happened to it?  IIRC execution time was vastly improved on most VAXen,
> but Alpha may have rendered the market microscopic.
>
> Of course, to be truly universal, it would either have to make object directly
> from DCL like a real compiler, or use Macro-32 as the intermediate language.
>

If DCL doesn't perform as you like on a modern Alpha or IA64,
you are probably using the wrong tool anyway.