[Info-vax] New CEO of VMS Software

[Scott Dorsey]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>
>The whole command-line concept on VMS is fundamentally flawed. Notice that 
>on *nix, the command line is not a single string, it is an array of 
>strings. This makes it easy to pass special characters that might mean 
>something to the shell, simply by bypassing the shell.

Having made the Unix-to-VMS transition in the late eighties, the two things
I really liked about DCL were the handling of wildcards and the ability to
use [....] for recursive file paths.  I would love to have those two things
in bash.

>And this is another case where Cutler seemed unable to learn from his 
>mistakes: he put the same brain damage into Windows NT.

Having individual disks being treated as their own heirarchy referenced to 
the disk itself rather than mounted somewhere else in some other filesystem
also seemed like a big step backwards for NT, yes.  It made sense in RT-11
but by the time VMS came along let alone Win NT, the Unix-style 
single-heirarchy system was clearly more flexible.
--scott
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