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

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Fri Jan 23 15:46:19 EST 2015


JF Mezei wrote:
> On 15-01-23 13:03, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
>> DCL can certainly be enhanced, yes.  Various enhancements can likely be 
>> useful to me, too.   But I'd also ask whether a better buggy whip is an 
>> appropriate goal here. 
> 
> The other option is to port the good bits of VNS to Unix and make it
> easy for customer to move from VMS to a unix with enough middlware to
> make their VMS software run fairly easily. (aka: libraries. utilities,
> editors, logical names, clustering etc)
> 
> 

I thought you couldn't get worse.

I was wrong ....



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