[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Robert A. Brooks]

On 2/3/2022 4:51 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
> I  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
  
SCAN sources are on a Freeware CD . . .

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                       -- Rob