[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 01/31/2018 02:00 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Sunday, January 21, 2018 at 7:02:57 PM UTC-6, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>
>> I'll start by mentioning one example from my past which is a programming
>> language called Synergy. This is a third party version of DEC's DIBOL
>> language and was recommended by DEC as the replacement for DIBOL.
>>
> 
> If Synergy doesn't port DIBOL to the x86 version of OpenVMS, the vast majority of credit unions in the country will be stranded on a bastard child which should have never been born (Itanic) or they will switch to non-HP Weeeendoooze hardware and systems. Been a while since I looked, but the two main vendors or credit union systems both were written with DIBOL.
> 

You may be right, but if Credit Unions were using VMS wouldn't there be
a lot more VMS jobs floating around?  I don't know about your neck of
the woods but around here you can't throw a rock without hitting a
credit union.  I figured they were all on Windows boxes as most didn't
even exist back in the day when VMS was still considered a valid option.

bill