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

[Bob Koehler]

In article <q1280f$iu3$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 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 ?

   Based on the noise level, it appears to be DCL.  When we got our
   first 11/780, it was clearly Fortran IV.