[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/24/2018 03:23 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.
> 

Guess it depends on what you consider "finance" today.

Two I know of that are extremely large that I know of are
the IRS and DFAS.  I know of others but not as big as those
two.

bill