[Info-vax] DCL and scripting

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In article <purkod$2ph$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2018-12-12, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2018-12-12 13:38:41 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>>
>>> The biggest thing for me is that John doesn't seem to think there's a 
>>> major conceptual problem with inserting C code into DCL, even given 
>>> DCL's unique requirements.
>>> 
>>> If you can get C code into DCL, I wonder if that could be used to fix 
>>> up other DCL issues.
>>
>> C is available in kernel mode, and using, the so-called kernel CRTL.  
>
>Yes, I know, but that API had to be added to VMS before it was
>possible to use C in the kernel.
>
>Likewise, the use of C within DCL was interesting because I didn't
>know if the use of C within DCL was even possible without adding
>support for it. As John has said, it is already in use which opens
>up various additional functionality options in the future.

One of the C modules is for Posix.  Another has a few unit conversion 
routines.  And, one more, isn't really C at all; it's ia64 assembly in
C.

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