[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Bob Koehler]

In article <00B1D9F9.30F74F9D at SendSpamHere.ORG>, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG writes:
> 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?  

   Just because Macro-32 reads like English to some of us, doesn't
   change the reality that for the newbie DCL looks just a little
   more like English than Macro-32 does.

   Of course, as a programming langauge, Macro-32 is no more overhead
   on VAXen than what we put into it.