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

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In article <m9puk0$krr$1 at dont-email.me>, "Craig A. Berry" <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> writes:
>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.

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