[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/13/2018 10:04 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/13/18 8:42 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 12/13/2018 5:40 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 12/13/18 4:17 PM, Milton Baar wrote:
>>>> Or perhaps just granting an educational or discounted license...there
>>>> is plenty of inexpensive hardware around...and I don't think an
>>>> endowment would be either needed or likely.
>>>>
>>>> This could be a way for OpenVMS to be back in the educational sector
>>>> with the possibly positive flow-on effects.  I don't think that the
>>>> IBM arrangement is an act of charity on their behalf, they understand
>>>> the benefits as DEC once did.
>>>>
>>>
>>> HP had a costless education license. It did not help keep VMS
>>> around Universities it was already at and certainly didn't
>>> bring it into new locations.  Trust me, I know.  I fought
>>> that battle until finally being told the equipment had to be
>>> removed.
>>
>> You're never going to win them all ....
>>
>> When you get someone in charge that wants to go a particular 
>> direction, it's gonna happen.  Not much you can do, nor is it worth 
>> wasting your time.
>>
>> But that doesn't mean the entire planet is going to go in that 
>> direction.  Nothing is that universal.
> 
> Academia is.  That's why even with COBOL being a strong contender
> in the business, banking, insurance, credit card, and government
> world no one in academia offers courses that utilize COBOL and
> the continue to advise students to  not even learn the language.
> And then we have OOP.  Once academia grasped this anchor everyone
> jumped on the bandwagon.

Universities teach a variety of different languages.

Java, C, C++, C#, Haskell, OCAML, Python etc. are frequently seen.

Yes - languages like Cobol, Fortran, Pascal and Ada are rarely taught
today.

But that should not be a surprise. At least Cobol and Fortran are
not very well suited to demonstrate any programming paradigm (PP,
OOP, GP, FP). None of them are particular in demand on the job
market.

Arne