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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/8/19 8:51 AM, abrsvc wrote:
> 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
>> Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world
> 
> 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
> 

Don't forget Ada.  The VAX running VMS had one of the
first validated compilers and saw use pretty much from
the very first VAX to hit the streets.  I saw it in the
very early 80's.

bill