[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

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In article <sth9l2$7p8$4 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>On 2022-02-03, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2/3/22 10:37, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> 
>>> A key thing in such tools are string handling.
>>
>> Any shortcomings in string handling in Fortran didn't seem to
>> stop it from proving the 41 primitives and 50 utilities in
>> STVOS.
>>
>
>You can write a full-blown parser in Macro-32 if you really want to.

I call LIB$T(ABLE_)PARSE.  I have a state table in my DCL debugger with over
800 lines to parse escape sequences.  That's not counting the action routines.
I couldn't imagine doing it with that strtok() thang.



>It doesn't mean that any sane person would want to do that when there
>are better languages available. :-)

SCAN? :P

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