[Info-vax] Suggestion: Enhance DCL to support proper escape quoting.

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/20/22 2:49 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> 
> On 1/20/22 11:37 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 1/20/22 11:26 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 1/20/2022 10:25 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> On 1/20/22 9:19 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>> but Perl
>>>>> and Python are not *nix specific.
>>>>
>>>> Both were originally developed in the Unix environment.  Use in any
>>>> other environment is an afterthought.
>>>
>>> They were developed on Unix but I don't think calling usage on
>>> other platforms an afterthought is proper description.
> 
> In fact it's an offensive and ignorant description.  It's more or less
> like saying Fortran on VMS is an afterthought because it ran on
> something else first.
> 

Don't take my word for it.  From "PERL in a Nutshell"

"While Perl was developed on Unix and is closely entwined with
Unix culture...."

It goes on to mention other places it runs and ends with "even VMS"
as if that surprised the authors.

Real programming languages like FORTRAN were explicitly written for
use on multiple disparate systems and OSes.

bill