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

[Dave Froble]

On 1/21/2022 5:13 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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

That's not what I remember, but, I've tried very hard to forget.

With BP2, one compiled to object modules, then (gasp) there was the dreaded 
<<<TKB>>> ...

I'll admit to learning much from overlays, but, it was still torture ..

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