From: arne@vajhoej.dk   
      
   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   
      
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