[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[David Froble]

VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> In article <TVJE6wjOvZS5 at eisner.encompasserve.org>, koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> In article <ojjv8v$kif$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>> As for any current alternatives to DCL?   Not good.   BASIC is not 
>>> ubiquitous on OpenVMS.  DCL is.
>>>
>>   So is Macro-32.  I can understand some folks would rather deal with
>>   the limitations of DCL than the overhead of learning Macro-32.
> 
> Overhead?  
> 

Neither Basic nor Macro-32 is appropriate for what DCL does.

The converse is, DCL is not appropriate for what Basic and Macro-32 does.