Why use U* over VMS

[herrickd at iccgcc.decnet.ab.com]

In article <16438 at shlump.nac.dec.com>, heintze at 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