[Info-vax] PL/1 on VMS

[Stafford Winters]

On 1/31/2012 7:50 AM, abrsvc wrote:
> On Jan 31, 9:49 am, Paul Sture<p... at sture.ch>  wrote:
>
> 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.

When VMS went to Alpha, DIBOL was allowed to pass to DISC, now 
Synergex.  License costs skyrocketed.  The development license might be 
similar in cost, but Synergex uses run-time licensing as well.  DIBOL 
was always pretty easy to use.  The company I worked for at the time 
used a lot of indexed files, a few relative files, and of course, output 
was to variable length, sequential files.  We didn't use any DBMS.