[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[mcleanjoh at gmail.com]

On Thursday, July 6, 2017 at 6:01:08 PM UTC+10, erga... at gmail.com wrote:
> On Thursday, 6 July 2017 01:44:43 UTC+1, Robert A. Brooks  wrote:
> 
> > > Yes, folks do write real programs in DCL.
> > 
> > https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Real-Programs-Second-Technologies/dp/1555581919
> 
> You can't believe everything you read ;)

I once wrote some software with over 100,000 lines of DCL when i was on a contract job.  It was a management tool for a software library.  The client didn't want to pay for a compiler on the machine as well as the ongoing costs for the compiler and someone with the skills in the language to handle maintenance.  Speed wasn't a critical issue.
Indexed files and screen handling all worked fine.  Client was happy.
A colleague left as the department was downsized so I took over his 70,000 line DCL software too.
It was all do-able in DCL and after all, DCL comes free with VS.