[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[osuvman50 at gmail.com]

On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 at 9:38:45 AM UTC-4, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 
> Just a short example where built-in iteration over arrays in Python
> makes the code short and easy to read:
> 
> This is scripting and just as easy to edit/run as DCL.
> But DCL cannot do this (as easy), of course.
> ...

Note that to have the cool iterator, you first have to an array.

> {RDB exampe}
>
> Doing the same in C or Cobol is a lot more work and
> it would be close to impossible to do stricly in DCL.

You can do it in Python because someone wrote an RDB module for it, probably in
C (and re-using much of some other database's DB-API implementation).