[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/5/2017 8:16 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2017-07-03 16:37:33 +0000, David Froble said:
>> Simple Dave answer, perhaps not everyone's answer, use it in a 
>> language that will support the magnitude of the number.  Like Basic.
> 
> Yes, folks do write real programs in DCL.
> 
> It's also problematic to use it, as DCL is fairly firmly stuck in the 
> 1980s and 1990s and the available development tools are limited and 
> third-party.

I would have said 60's and 70's.

:-)

> As for any current alternatives to DCL?   Not good.   BASIC is not 
> ubiquitous on OpenVMS.  DCL is.

Python is rather obvious.

JavaScript as a more surprising suggestion.

Arne