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

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei skrev den 2015-01-21 23:23:
> Just a comment:
>
> There have been suggestions about adding looping. (I use that as an
> example).
>
>
> One can already do looking in DCL, and except for ability to do a loop
> on a single line which you can do in bash, there isn't much functionlity
> that is prevented.
>
> The focus should be on giving DCL functionlity that is missing or
> extremely hard/complex to do.
>
> for instance: make it possible do do
>
> $edit "Recette de gâteau au chocolat.txt"  instead of the extremely
> complex and non obvious escaping needed in DCL/VMS.
>
>
> Another suggestion: once VMS 1.0 is available on that architecture I
> can't name without making people angry,...

Still havn't grown up? :-)

> VSI should poll those customers
> who do migrate to that architecture on what features they are using (and
> this need upward compatibility).
>
> This may allow VSI to make non-upward competible changes to VMS on that
> platform,

And those that migrate efter that?

> knowing customers are not dependent on old behaviour and thus
> enable new features that way without being hampered by customers with
> legacy code who aren't gonna upgrade anyways.
>

Is that something they have to sign on?
"I'll never migrate, sign here..."