[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/3/2017 11:41 PM, IanD wrote:
> While I like Python a lot because it keeps growing and every person
> and their dog writes Python binders for everything, I think
> functional languages are even better if one is wanting to harden
> production environments. No side effects in terms of function calls
> just bolsters production resilience
> 
> Grandfather DCL, Bring Python up to date on VMS (V3), polish off the
> rest of the calls that are not quite complete and we are on our way
> to bettering VMS.
> 
> Look at functional languages too, I think they are going to grow in
> use as side-effects become more and more undesirable going forward

Relative pure FP languages does not seem to have much traction.

OOP languages with lots of FP features seems to have some traction.

New languages like Scala and F#.

And additions to older languages like C# and Java.

But I don't think this stuff is particular important for
scripting.

Arne