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

[John Reagan]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2015 at 9:25:14 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> As for the future of BASIC, it'd be interesting to see what might 
> happen should VSI decide to overhaul DEC BASIC, adding object support, 
> pointer support, garbage collection and maybe some other new features 
> into the language.  This'd probably best follow the Visual Basic AS 
> syntax for pointers, given the VB syntax is long established.  This 
> won't draw all that many folks away from C, C++, Python or other 
> higher-profile languages.  But the crowd using VB was and probably 
> still is bigger than the crowd using VMS, l'd expect.
> 

We provided a DEC BASIC to VB converter.  As far as I know, almost nobody used it.