[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/23/2018 7:18 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 01/23/2018 07:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 1/23/2018 3:17 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article <p45v88$1u3q$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
>>> <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes:
>>>> Languages needed for old stuff:
>>>>
>>>> Fortran - HP/VSI, will be ported
>>>
>>>> Languages needed for new stuff:
>>>
>>> Hey!  One can write new code in Fortran!
>>
>> You can.
>>
>> But if you look at 1000 new applications how many of them will
>> actually be in Fortran?
>>
>> My guess: most likely none, maybe one or two.
> 
> The stuff that is best done in Fortran will continue to be done
> in Fortran.  I can think of a couple of places that still do
> major projects in Fortran (One in GA and another in NY).

I can only think of one type of application where I would
consider Fortran an obvious candidate: number crunching
(BLAS, LAPACK etc.).

> COBOL the same way.  There are things these languages do that
> other languages do not do as well.

Cobol I can not even think of one type. But that may of course
be my lack of Cobol knowledge. When I hear Cobol features I
think: structs, BCD, database access, basic procedural programming.
Which is covered in most modern languages.

Arne