[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Paul Hardy]

Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> You can write a full-blown parser in Macro-32 if you really want to.
> It doesn't mean that any sane person would want to do that when there
> are better languages available. :-)

I’m not sure a sane person would/should write a parser in any language,
given the effort that has been put into  making toolkit ones available.

We implemented a pretty complex command language parser from Fortran on VAX
in the 1980s, but we made full use of available underlying facilities, such
as LIB$TPARSE. The state tables were defined in Macro-32, but just as data
not executable code.

Regards,


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