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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/21/2022 4:03 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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 ? :-)
>>
>> Basic+ is a interpreter and also allowed immediate execution of 
>> instructions. Perhaps those features could be an inspiration?
> 
> Basic+ was compilable. File extension BAC.

This is before my time, so I don't know anything about.

Should such a .BAC file contain native PDP-11 code (like
a VMS EXE file) or does it contain some binary version
of the source code (like Python .pyc or Java .class)?

Arne