[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Wed Jan 24 18:47:45 EST 2018


On 1/24/2018 5:54 PM, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote:
> 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

I would consider C#, JavaScript/ECMAScript and Ruby to be modern.

C++ to be semi-modern.

And Java is done via JCP not ISO.

Arne



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