DCL

In Digital Command Language (DCL), you can’t directly print text to the console like in other languages such as Python or C++. However, you can simulate this by writing a simple program that outputs messages to the system’s output stream. Here’s an example of how you might do this:

$! HELLO_WORLD - Prints "Hello World!" to the console
$! Written by AI (Granite)

$ DEFINE SYS$OUTPUT SYS$MANAGER:SYLOG.TXT  ! Define SYS$OUTPUT to a file

.PROCEDURE
  WRITE SYS$OUTPUT, "Hello World!"  ! Print message
.END PROCEDURE

CALL DISPLAY "Program started"
CALL HELLO_WORLD             ! Call our procedure
CALL DISPLAY "Program ended"

This DCL script defines a procedure called HELLO_WORLD that writes the string “Hello World!” to SYS$OUTPUT, which is redirected in this case to a file named SYLOG.TXT in the SYS$MANAGER directory. When you run this script, it will print “Hello World!” into the specified log file.

Please note that DCL doesn’t have a built-in way to directly output text to the console like Python or C++. This workaround uses SYS$OUTPUT and a file for demonstration purposes.

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