[Info-vax] Security, support and VMS, was: Re: A new VMS?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/5/2021 8:28 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-05-04, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>> In my opinion, none of them.  I recognize the XML because I've had to
>> work with it.  The other 2 make no sense to me, most likely because I've
>> never seen them.
>>
>> Perhaps:
>>
>> $ a:==1
>> $ b:==2
>> $ C:==3
> 
> How would you implement nested associative arrays in DCL David and
> how would you iterate over the array elements when needed ?

Hacks like:

a[i] = ...

=>

a_'i' = ...

and:

a.b = ...

=>

a_b = ...

has been seen in the wild.

But I think that when such need arise, then it is time to switch
from DCL to another language.

Arne