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

[Craig A. Berry]

On 1/15/24 8:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-01-13, 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?
>>
>> Yes, it's a trick question.
> 
> I would choose the Python installation that's part of the base install
> and hence guaranteed to be present on every system.

I wish that Python were available out of the box, and perhaps it will be
some day, but as far as I know it isn't yet.  In fact I don't think it's
even available as a separate install for x86 yet is it?