[Info-vax] PL/1 on VMS

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On Jan 31, 9:49 am, Paul Sture <p... at sture.ch> wrote:
> 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

Dibol for VMS did support calls to other languages just like any other
on VMS systems.  I don't recall who supports this now, but it does
still exist and is supported.

Dan