[Info-vax] Access to _all_ VMS system services and library functions from DCL ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/9/2017 8:09 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 7/9/2017 7:59 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> It's very nice that Javascript can do this sort of thing on VMS. I
>> assume anything based on the JVM could do something similar?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> I would actually have preferred to use Jython (JVM Python), but
> I had problems getting it to run, so I ended up using JavaScript.
> But the Jython problems could probably be sorted out. JRuby and
> Groovy are other options.

Supposedly there once was Jython running on VMS.

Does anyone have links?

Latest Jython does not run on VMS Alpha due to too old Java version.

Jython 2.5.x (last version build on Java 1.5) gives me errors.

Obviously I could start looking at the source code but it is rather big.

Arne