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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2024-01-14, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
> In article <uo1co2$ihn3$1 at dont-email.me>,
> Craig A. Berry <craigberry at nospam.mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>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?
>
> In fact, I did not know that.  But I fail to see the relavence.
>

In some security-sensitive environments, such as the environments some
VMS systems are running on, you can't just install a scripting language
from the Internet that has not been validated by your vendor (ie: VSI).

Simon.

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