DCL, was: Re: Microkernel (was: VMS port to x86)

On 2012-06-03, Paul Sture <paul.nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:22:37 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
Would you blindly implement all the special quoting required for ODS-5
volumes or would you implement another approach which reduced the
special quoting requirements ?

I've always hated that caret business. Dollar signs in filenames aren't
very friendly for a GNV environment either.


Agreed on both, but with bash, it's at least very good about inserting the
reserved symbol escape character if you use tab completion.

A refresh of DCL, with current CLI standards in mind, could be quite a
nice thing.

Things I would like to see in a new and improved DCL:

Editing of command lines longer than the terminal width.

Filename tab completion with a list of matching options displayed if you
keep pressing tab.

Incremental recall of commands bash style (hit Ctrl-R and start typing).

Optionally writing out the commands entered in the current session to the
end of a existing history file when you logout and having those commands
automatically available for you at next login as part of the command
history. (I am thinking .bash_history here).

Structured programming constructs (while/do-until/etc).

Associative arrays/sets and supporting set based loop structures. It would
also be nice to have the output from a lexical such as f$search optionally
returned as a set.

Ability to use a regex in a wildcard file specification.

Site specific lexical functions.

Simon.

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