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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <54c2a3e2$0$22369$c3e8da3$a9097924 at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
> 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)

here are already products in this area:  providing VMS APIs on UNIX.
But some of us actually need a VMS kernel.