[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-12 kl. 18:00, skrev 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.

Of course. I do not see your point in that. My point was that it is
as easy to use Python in DCL scripts as to use DCL itself.

> 
>> {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).
> 

Of course... My point is that is not as easy to write a Rdb module
for DCL itself, not that I know of, at least.