[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/24/2018 11:03 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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 :-).

Yup.

>> 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.

Finance has also moved on.

I doubt you can find a financial institution with >20%
of its code in Cobol today.

But Cobol is still a major language in finance.

Arne