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

[David Froble]

John Reagan wrote:
> On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 3:40:48 PM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 
>> You would keep f$parse for compatibility with existing DCL code and
>> it would continue to return individual strings, but you could also
>> have a (say) sys package with a differently named f$parse returning an
>> object containing all the parsed fields in one go.
> 
> You mean like SYS$FILESCAN?  What's your issue with multiple calls to F$PARSE?  The overhead?


>  You are writing in DCL after all...
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

And doesn't that put things into perspective?

:-)  :-)  :-)

This is an interesting discussion, and I think a good discussion, from 
the perspective of "thinking".

But, what is going to be the most use to the most users?  Scripting?  Or 
perhaps getting VMS to run serious applications?