[Info-vax] PL/1 on VMS

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:29:06 -0500, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

> On 1/24/2012 10:48 AM, IanMiller wrote:
>> VAX DIBOL to ANSI C converter.
>>
>> http://www.migrationspecialties.com/CBL.html
> 
> My assumption is that DIBOL is pretty high level (I do not know DIBOL).
> 
> So that seems a lot easier than the Macro->C conversion.
> 
> (it should be easier to go from higher level to lower level language)
> 

I used DIBOL back in PDP days and yes, it was high level.  The flavour I 
used didn't offer a supported means of interfacing with routines written 
in other languages, so you stayed in the language itself.

Not always great for performance, but it did mean that whole suites of 
programs would be eligible for input to a language converter.

Disclaimer: I know nothing about later versions of DIBOL, particularly 
non-DEC flavours.

-- 
Paul Sture