[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).

Ah, yes; I remember this from when I was in the US military.
There was a list of approved software one could install, but it
always struck me as ponderously ambiguous.  For instance, some
specific version of a tool or editor or something would be on
one row of the list, while the next row would be "Red Hat
Enterprise Linux" with, presumably, its RPM repos.  Of course,
this was in Afghanistan, and I didn't have install media, so....
*shrug*

	- Dan C.