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

[Dan Cross]

In article <uo3eqa$uunb$3 at dont-email.me>,
Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>On 2024-01-14, Dan Cross <cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net> wrote:
>> In article <uo1co2$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).

That may be true, but as you point out, there's Python, and
besides, I wasn't talking only about VMS: that's a strawman
Berry inserted.  He appears to want to pick a fight about
something I didn't say.  Oh well.

	- Dan C.