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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-01-21 22:46, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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)?

BASIC+ just compiled to tokens. So it wasn't really "compiled".
But I could thing that various string handling in Perl could have been 
inspired by BASIC+.

BASIC+2 was a bit more properly compiled. But it can also run in 
interactive mode.

   Johnny