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Article #1057Re: Why use U* over VMS
From: herrickd
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 1990 17:13
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 1990 17:13
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In article <16438@shlump.nac.dec.com>, heintze@fmcsse.enet.dec.com (Siegfried Heintze) writes: > Having used VMS for many years and being terribly ignorant of the different > flavors of U* > I would like solicit comments from programmers experienced in both VMS and U*. > > Specifically I would like to know what makes U* a better development > environment. [much of his question omitted] > your source code like "find all the occurences of variables of type x whose name > matches > the pattern *jj*h in the set of routines whose names match j* in call tree x > ...." > This one "feature" of VMS is enough to make one climb the walls after one becomes accustomed to UNIX regular expressions. There are one or two other advantages of UNIX. dan herrick
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!abvax!iccgcc!herrickd From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: comp.unix.programmer Subject: Re: Why use U* over VMS Message-ID: <1494.271d9c6c@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 18 Oct 90 17:13:31 GMT References: <16438@shlump.nac.dec.com> Lines: 21