[Info-vax] x86 Update 4/22/19

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <JN7Z8KZswflH at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
koehler at eisner.nospam.decuserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes: 

> In article <f14bdf25-8a50-4425-877f-805b50483850 at googlegroups.com>,
> John Reagan <xyzzy1959 at gmail.com> writes: 

> > I've already suggested replacing those with perl or something.  None
> > of the transformations are complicated. 
> 
>    perl is cute, and it would be nice to have as part of base VMS.

BTW, the source code to perl gives me a headache, I haven't seen
anything so convoluted since I did the Maple ports for Waterloo.  The
comments are either quotes from 'Lord of the Rings' or
self-congratulatory remarks of how efficient or clever the next block of
code is. 

                                                          ---David Jones

>    But leave TECO alone, and leave it's uses alone, so well know we have
>    TECO.

But then I'd use teco to get my lawnmower started.

                                                       ---Elliott Roper