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

[cmexec at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 2:39:14 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 
> Once again, matter of opinion.  Back when IBM was in it's prime they
> were partnered with Marist College in Poughkeepsie.  We used to get
> their interns for summer work.  Whizes with APL couldn't do anything
> with COBOL or Fortran.

The last time I had access to an APL compiler, I was wanted not to use it.
Turns out it was a transpiler which wrote BASIC.  Both ran on a 
DECSYSTEM-10 and the BASIC was interpreted.

Much to the dismay of a fellow who learned APL because it had a
reputation for doing large calculations "faster".