[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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