[Info-vax] Removing the leading $ from commands in a new DCL language

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2015-05-08 12:34:08 +0000, Paul Sture said:

> One typical example might be a program written to accept user input but 
> not have any other means such as DCL qualifiers to specify that data.
> ....
> What I would like to see in "New DCL" is a more comprehensive set of 
> functions to get data in, wherever it may come from or whatever format 
> it is in.

Getting at least as far as bash piping would be handy with whatever 
replacement command line might (never) be implemented, but — if you're 
going to overhaul things — Windows PowerShell has a far more flexible 
(albeit also more complex) approach.  
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_PowerShell#Pipeline> 
<https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd347655.aspx>  Passing 
whole files and passing whole wads of data around — as is common with 
some other environments — is really handy in general, and more capable 
than having to translate everything through a human-readable text 
format — ASCII, MCS, UTF-8 — and not just for the character encoding 
"fun", but because there's no good way to tag the particular metadata 
involved within the text stream for (for instance) language.



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