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Subject: Re: Clair Grant on VMS code base
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 15:26:44 -0400
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On 4/7/2025 4:14 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Apr 2025 07:40:16 -0000 (UTC), I wrote:
>> On Sun, 6 Apr 2025 20:34:54 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> ... bash has got a _lot_ more functionality in it than DCL does.
>>>
>>> 6 times more?
>>
>>      ldo@theon:~> man bash | wc -w
>>      52159
>>
>> I think that’s considered about novel-length.
>>
>> How many words are there in the DCL reference?
> 
> I suppose the reference is the “DCL Dictionary”. And that is a lot longer.
> But then, it includes docs for a lot of commands that are not built into
> DCL itself. You’d have to take those out for a fair comparison.

VMS 9.2-3

VERB dump
take everything with CLIROUTINE
add :=, =, @ and lexical
foreach
    HELP/OUT=Z.Z whatever...
    APPEND Z.Z HELP.HLP

64431 words

Not sure that really means anything.

Arne