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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/21/15 8:25 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:

> The flaws in DCL, however, remain.  It's clunky and confusing to use
> with its asymmetric quoting and its fondness for quoted quotes for
> various tasks

SQL and XQuery and Visual Basic (and probably lots of other languages
I'm not acquainted with) double up quotes to quote them just like DCL
does. There's nothing especially clunky, confusing, or arcane about it.
This way of doing things has coexisted with languages that use an escape
character for many years and clearly neither way has won out.