[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/24/2018 10:56 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/24/2018 10:09 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 01/24/2018 09:19 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> PS: Mumps/M is special because its usage is extremely centered
>>>      around a single domain.
>>
>> What domain do you think that is?  ANSI-M is used in Medical,
>> Finance, Banking (the two are different in this category).
>> And just one of those is one of the largest.
> 
> Healthcare.
> 
> Healthcare is the majority of Mumps market. And healthcare
> is the only domain where Mumps is a major player.

And, ANSI-M is the majority of Healthcare (well, except for one
extremely large portion that is done in COBOL :-).

> 
> Mumps is used in finance, but they also use many
> other languages - some of them a lot more.

I think it might be more than you imagine, but, yes, the
majority is probably still COBOL.

bill