I could stomach DCL OK (the paradigm that it's talking one line at a
time to a user is a bit awkward for scripting, but no big deal) but EVE
seemed going to far; I installed VIM everywehre at my VMS client. Then
they installed perl so DCL could fade away; but this was just a couple
years ago, there are still guys there happily coding in EVE.<br>
Peter<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/22/09, <b class="gmail_sendername">Frank Jansen</b> <<a href="mailto:fjansen@egenera.com">fjansen@egenera.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br> On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:52 -0700, Cunningham, Dave wrote:<br> > I spent way too much of my VMS time playing that text only adventure game ;-)<br> ><br> > "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike..."<br>
><br> > -----Original Message-----<br> > From: <a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org">beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org">beowulf-bounces@beowulf.org</a>] On Behalf Of Chris Samuel<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:35 PM<br> > To: Beowulf List<br> > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Oracle buys Sun<br> ><br> ><br> > ----- "Joe Landman" <<a href="mailto:landman@scalableinformatics.com">landman@scalableinformatics.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br> > > This was VMS. Not openVMS. Vax 8650 or something like that.<br> > ><br> > > I seem to remember the scripting language was quite fortran-esq.<br> ><br> > Using VMS was a bit like playing a text only adventure game..<br>
><br> <br>Yes, the good old days of DCL! It seemed fairly robust in those days<br> with its capability to implement functions and all. Between DCL and<br> EVE, I felt pretty powerful back then :) Although, I loathe to admit<br>
that the first thing I did with EVE was to try and make it work like<br> TECO, but now I am really dating myself :)<br> <br> If I can only get my copy of VTTREK up and running again!<br> <br><br> _______________________________________________<br>
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