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From: cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: marketing vs. demerit
Message-ID: <5461@utah-cs.UUCP>
Date: 2 May 88 15:58:30 GMT
References: <2822@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: cetron@cs.utah.edu.UUCP (Edward J Cetron)
Organization: Center for Engineering Design, Univ of Utah
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In article <2822@bsu-cs.UUCP> campbell@maynard.BSW.COM (Larry Campbell) writes:
>In article <2725@bsu-cs.UUCP> dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
><>Based on a superficial (and rather skeptical, raised-eyebrow) look
>             ^^^^^^^^^^^
><>at VMS, I conclude as follows.
><>
><>VMS's design makes it very difficult to include structured control
><>structures in DCL.  The UNIX shells can save their context between
><>...
><>another program.  To use while loops and if-then statements the DCL



Golly, I wish Rahul had told this to the VMS development team! Seems version
5 (which is in SDC at this very moment and has been for 2 weeks) supports
full if-then-(else) constructs.  And I seem to recall a hint that while loops
might not be too far behind....

-ed
cetron@cs.utah.edu