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

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Fri Jan 21 16:03:00 EST 2022


On 1/21/22 3:25 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 1/21/2022 1:27 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 ? :-)
>>
>> Simon.
>>
> 
> Basic+ is a interpreter and also allowed immediate execution of 
> instructions. Perhaps those features could be an inspiration?
> 

Basic+ was compilable. File extension BAC.

bill


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