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[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/19/2022 12:20 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <ss9ba0$vb7$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> DCL, FORTRAN, C, and some other common OpenVMS programming languages
>> just aren't very good at strings.

> Then---drumroll, please---I moved from writing the LaTeX by hand (from
> templates, of course), with all the \include commands, to writing a
> normal LaTeX document which is then PARSED BY A DCL SCRIPT to create
> usually several hundred pages of LaTeX source.
> 
> Later I added the possibility to add a header or footer to each slide,
> also via the DCL script.
> 
> I have seen DCL procedures with tens of thousands of lines.  :-)

Python or Perl would likely have been both shorter and faster.

Arne