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

Bill Gunshannon bill at server3.cs.scranton.edu
Wed Jan 21 10:23:45 EST 2015


In article <m9ofu1$f3v$1 at dont-email.me>,
	Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
> On 2015-01-21 14:50:33 +0000, John Reagan said:
> 
>> We provided a DEC BASIC to VB converter.  As far as I know, almost 
>> nobody used it.
> 
> But was that because they didn't like the language dialect, or because 
> they didn't want to or couldn't easily migrate to Microsoft Windows?
 
That was my immediate thought as well.

bill
 

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