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

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-01-19 22:53:11 +0000, John Reagan said:

> I'd rather not mung up DCL with aggregate returns (don't call them 
> objects please) but rather say you should use Perl or Python for such 
> larger tasks.

Which gets back to looking at how to provide an alternative or a more 
modern scripting language than what DCL provides.

So get Perl, Python or Lua into the base distro, and with a decent set 
of libraries, and — like what is offered for DCL — allow an easy path 
for direct invocation.

With embedding and scripting, where those languages support it, too.

For better or worse, DCL and Macro32 are the common programming 
choices, having the benefit of being installed everywhere.


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