[Info-vax] BASIC (was Re: 64-bit)

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/13/24 7:29 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <unv79k$4qr0$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>> On 1/13/24 1:50 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
>>> In article <ununma$35nkk$1 at i2pn2.org>,
>>> John Reagan  <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> wrote:
>>>> On 1/12/2024 7:09 AM, Chris Townley wrote:
>>>>> On 12/01/2024 06:15, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 12 Jan 2024 00:40:47 -0500, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Basic in my opinion does strings very well.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only if you measure it by the pre-Perl era.
>>>>>
>>>>> Perl is the work of the devil!
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I actually like Perl and did a whole bunch of scripting with it
>>>> during my time with HP-UX and NonStop compilers.
>>>
>>> In it's day, Perl was kind of the only viable solution in the
>>> space it inhabited (that of a relatively light-weight middle
>>> ground between C on one hand and the shell+utilites on the
>>> other).  Raku fixed most of the deficiencies of perl 4 and perl
>>> 5, but I'd argue there are other, better languages to
>>> choose from these days.
>>
>> Which of the languages that are available as part of the base install of
>> OpenVMS x86 would you choose instead of Perl?
> 
> TPU!

Sure, it's better than DCL for some kinds of text processing, but you
didn't say why you think it's better than Perl.  Or were you not aware
that Perl is in the base install of OpenVMS x86?