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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/21/22 12:27 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2022-01-20, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>
>> PS: In the original post Larry Wall also claimed to be inspired by
>>       BASIC-PLUS, which did not run on Unix.
> 
> Ok, that's a new one. :-)
> 
> How do you get from BASIC-PLUS to Perl ? :-)

I've never seen BASIC-PLUS but my guess would be that some form of BASIC
provided the inspiration for duck typing. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing