[Info-vax] Java on VMS, was: Re: So is there still a hobbyist program or not

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/21/19 8:21 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2019-07-20, Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> On 20/07/2019 8:13 pm, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 7/19/19 9:24 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> A bit of fun only slightly related.
>>>>
>>>> I came to think of: what JVM language would the programmers
>>>> of the traditional VMS languages pick.
>>>>
>>>> My best guess:
>>>>
>>>> Cobol -> Java
>>>
>>> Considering that the two have absolutely nothing in common, why?
>>>
>>
>> They were once extremely popular and are now both dead.
>>
> 
> I would say they are both in legacy status as opposed to dead.
> 

Most people in the industry would say that VMS is in legacy mode.

Should we treat it the same way people want to treat COBOL?

bill