[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[David Froble]

osuvman50 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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).

I sometimes wonder how often people forget this simple fact.