Re: DCL improvements

From: Larry Kilgallen (Kilgallen_at_SpamCop.net)
Date: 10/07/03 

Date: 7 Oct 2003 11:09:38 -0500

In article <sd80wS3zf2Ey@eisner.encompasserve.org>, briggs@encompasserve.org writes:

> The non-purist point of view is "I want to know if the device is available
> for use. And if it doesn't exist then it's surely not available. Why
> make me waste two lexical calls when one would do?

And the answer would be "so you get training in how to program for a
compiled language".