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

[mcleanjoh at gmail.com]

On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 1:17:40 AM UTC+11, Bob Koehler wrote:
> In article <m9pdk1$cqh$1 at dont-email.me>, David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
> > 
> > I haven't really considered the calls for looping capability.  Perhaps 
> > because I do looping in DCL frequently.
> > 
> > Is the problem that there is no formalized looping commands?
> 
>    The problem is the large number of programmers I've worked with
>    who insist that there is no "goto" in C.

It's just simpler and usually clearer to write chunks of DCL that don't have something like


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