[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-01-24 kl. 19:59, skrev Bill Gunshannon:
> 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).
>>
>>
>> Topic?
>>
> 
> Thank you.  I suspected there was such in DEC BASIC.
> Thus leading to my next question.
> 
> Is it part of the ANSI Standard?....

Regarding standards, ANSI or ISO, this is a list of the current languages
that have an ISO standard defined.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_languages_with_an_ISO_standard

Below is the list. Not many "modern" languages there...

A

     Ada (programming language)
     ALGOL 60
     APL (programming language)

B

     BASIC

C

     C++
     C (programming language)
     C Sharp (programming language)
     CHILL
     COBOL

E

     ECMAScript

F

     Forth (programming language)
     Fortran

I

     ISLISP

J

     JavaScript

M

     Modula-2
     MUMPS

P

     Pascal (programming language)
     PL/I
     Prolog

R

     Ruby (programming language)

S

     SQL
     SQL syntax