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. Peter
On 4/22/09, Frank Jansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-04-21 at 17:52 -0700, Cunningham, Dave wrote: > > I spent way too much of my VMS time playing that text only adventure game > ;-) > > > > "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike..." > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Chris Samuel > > Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 5:35 PM > > To: Beowulf List > > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Oracle buys Sun > > > > > > ----- "Joe Landman" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This was VMS. Not openVMS. Vax 8650 or something like that. > > > > > > I seem to remember the scripting language was quite fortran-esq. > > > > Using VMS was a bit like playing a text only adventure game.. > > > > Yes, the good old days of DCL! It seemed fairly robust in those days > with its capability to implement functions and all. Between DCL and > EVE, I felt pretty powerful back then :) Although, I loathe to admit > that the first thing I did with EVE was to try and make it work like > TECO, but now I am really dating myself :) > > If I can only get my copy of VTTREK up and running again! > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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