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From: arosen@eagle.ulowell.edu (MFHorn)
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Subject: Re: Help us defend against VMS!
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Date: 23 Mar 88 07:25:28 GMT
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(Val Kartchner) writes:
>     Any Eunuchs programmer could easily: bllsht.  Anyone else could spell it
>     correctly.
[Eunuchs, Eunuchs, Eunuchs...]

I think this is a sign of immaturity that I sadly find too often among the
VMS Holies.  At least the Unix people acknowledge VMS for it's good points
_without_ making fun of VMS or it's fans.

>     In the VMS environment, the command would be parsed (and verified
>     syntactically correct) in a consistent manner before the program (image)
>     was even loaded.

Which means DCL has to know the syntax of every command on the sytem.  Yeah,
real modern.  Makes it real easy to add commands to the system, too.
Especially for users who write their own private little utilities.  Can you
say search path?

>     Another thought on Eunuchs: Get an editor.

What do you call GNU?  I hate EDT and am quite happy with VI.  But, I'm
ignoring TPU (because I don't know it :-), so this isn't totally fair.

>      Before you flame me 
>      Please, take it with a large grain of salt.

But my blood pressure :-)

>      I would like to become
>      as proficient with Unix as I am with VMS.

Funny, I'd like to become as proficient with VMS as I am with Unix.

Andy Rosen           | arosen@hawk.ulowell.edu | "I got this guitar and I
ULowell, Box #3031   | ulowell!arosen          |  learned how to make it
Lowell, Ma 01854     |                         |  talk" -Thunder Road
                   RD in '88 - The way it should be