[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[David Froble]

Robert A. Brooks wrote:
> On 7/2/2017 5:41 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2017-07-02, Robert A. Brooks <FIRST.LAST at vmssoftware.com> wrote:
>>> On 7/2/2017 1:21 AM, mcleanjoh at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  From the June 2017 VMS Roadmap, under "Research Areas" (slide 3) ...
>>>>
>>>> "Additional Scripting Languages"
>>>>
>>>> I guess we'll learn more the track but maybe it will incorporate 64-bit
>>>> integers and all the associated changes that this would require 
>>>> (e.g. lexical
>>>> functions overlaying system services).
>>>
>>> The thought is that DCL will always be the command parser, and some 
>>> other
>>> language (likely open source) would be used for scripting.
>>>
>>
>> Will you be running this scripting language as a normal user mode
>> (not supervisor mode) image without any privileges other than those
>> already granted to the user ?
> 
> Whereas I said "This issue isn't getting much focus by us yet, however.",
> I probably should have said "this issue is getting no attention (that
> I'm aware of) right now."
> 
> Whatever discussions I've heard have been more
> along the lines of "the easiest way to fix the 32-bit limitation in DCL
> is to offer another scripting language".
> 

I guess my question is "why is anyone using integers of such magnitude in DCL?"