How many Line a DCL can manage on VMS 5.5

[labadie_1]

Wim

I think we agree that code must be easily maintained. Awk is (I think since Tcpip 5.0) on any Vms system, in this bizarre place. This adds regular expressions, that Dcl lacks in some circumstances.

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Furthermore,

compilers require licenses require money (we have fortran and pascal and some c)

perl is freeware and requires someone of good will to correct the problems/support it on new versions

and ...

DCL is included and supported.

Wim

[labadie_1]

Jan

>>>In itself that would not have to pose a big problem, but if you need to change something and nobody around knows IF the sources are still there, let alone where...

Of course, if the source is not here, and of course with Dcl the source is always here :-)


>>>Rather frustrating if they have just purchased a nice new Vax with RA81's, and all system management procedures and user program control procedures reference DRA0, DRB0, DRC0 and DRD0....

yes, but this leads more to the knowledge (or absence of) about logical names, than about the preferred langage on the site

:-)

[Jan van den Ende]

Gerard,


yes, but this leads more to the knowledge (or absence of) about logical names, than about the preferred langage on the site


I am kind of a 'software nomad', so I get around (current assignment rather long-lasting, though).
And you find what you find, and have to make do with that.
But IF there is no good knowledge/usage of logical names (and I am on record in this forum as a true advocate, even more especially Concealed Logical names), then compiled languages certainly DO complicate matters.

All in all, I prefer DCL.


Jan

[Bui_2]

Ok my problem are sovlved,

the develloper's cell simply forget an ENDIF, and VMS getback a label -W- and not an error with IF-THEN-ELSE loop

thanks all this problem my muched learn

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

Bui,

I would advice to use dcl_check of the freeware package. I post here my versions of it. You can try to use it on 5.5 but is best to use 6+.

Wim

[Wim Van den Wyngaert]

I forgot : put the file in dcl_check.com.
Then

@dcl_check.com your.com

will validate your.com.

Wim