[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-01-24 kl. 20:39, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 1/24/2018 1:59 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 01/24/2018 01:21 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 11:26:04 AM UTC-6, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>> What data type of none-integer does
>>>> BASIC support that can do calculations with decimals without the
>>>> cumulative error common to floating point?
>>>
>>> Just a wild guess, but maybe the DECIMAL data type?
>>>
>>> $ help/library=basichelp data_types decimal
>>>
>>>
>>> DATA_TYPES
>>>
>>>    DECIMAL
>>>
>>>       The DECIMAL(d,s) data type keyword specifies  packed  decimal 
>>> data.   A
>>>       packed  decimal  value  has  a  specified  number  of  digits (d) 
>>> and a
>>>       specified decimal point position (s).
> 
>> Thank you.  I suspected there was such in DEC BASIC.
>> Thus leading to my next question.
>>
>> Is it part of the ANSI Standard? How many versions of BASIC have
>> it?  It is always a bad idea to bet on non-standard features in
>> any language.
> 
> Fair point.
> 

Is there an ANSI standard for Java? Or for any of the high profile
languages running on the Java JVM? IS there a ANSI standard for any
of the "modern" languages that VMS is said to be missing?

My point is that the availablility of an ANSI standard might not
be what the market at large is asking about.

Anyway, "DECIMAL" is at least a reserved word in ANSI X3.113-1987
"Programming Languages Full BASIC", so yes, DECIMAL is part of
the ANSI standard for Basic. But so what?

Jan-Eirik.


> Basic beyond trivial code is not particular portable.
> 
> VMS Basic, VB/VBS/VB and VB.NET are rather different languages.
> 
> Arne
>