[Info-vax] Most popular application programming languages on VMS ?

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On Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 8:19:14 AM UTC-5, Simon Clubley wrote:
> All this talk about programming languages has made me wonder what
> the most popular application programming languages are on VMS, both
> today and in the past.
> 
> Since the language options are going to vary with application type
> (you are not going to see a lot of scientific programming in COBOL
> for example :-)), this is across the VMS base as a whole and not
> across one specific section of it.
> 
> Does anyone know the answer ?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Simon.
> 
> -- 
> Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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I can only talk about the ones for the sites that I support...

The most common that I see are:

FORTRAN
COBOL
C
BASIC

Others seen but not particularly actively used in new development:

DIBOL
MACRO-32
PASCAL