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

[David Froble]

John Reagan wrote:
> 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.
> 

I never knew about it.

What about a VB to DEC Basic converter?