[Info-vax] DCL and scripting

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/12/2018 8:38 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-12-11, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 12/11/2018 2:39 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>> The biggest obstacle in shoving a regex into the middle of DCL is making sure the license is suitable.  For instance, we can't/won't put a piece of GPL code into DCL.EXE.
>>
>> PCRE library is BSD licensed.
> 
> 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.

I am sure you can use C in DCL.

C is used for kernel mode code in many OS'es because it works
in privileged mode.

And I believe device drivers in C has been officially supported
on VMS for years.

Arne