[Info-vax] DCL Integer Overflow

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2017-07-12 kl. 21:59, skrev 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.

What "fact"? Someone had to write VMS also, if we should
follow that logic. It doesn't matter much to me who wrote
what of the pieces I'm using, as long as it wasn't me...