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From: Simon Wright <simon.j.wright@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada.Command_Line and wildcards
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:51:27 +0000
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Martin Krischik <krischik@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> Actually the VMS *could* have done that as foreign commands or
> symbols are defined using a meta language called CLD (Command
> Language Definition) [1].

Actually you used CLD _or_ foreign commands. I forget why I used
foreign commands almost exclusively -- I guess the CLD compiler wasn't
available or wasn't obviously documented when I started programming on
VMS (1982, I think).