[Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS X86 platform

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-15, Bill Gunshannon <bill.gunshannon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/15/20 10:53 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>> The claim was not that it used Cobol syntax but that it
>> was inspired by Cobol.
>
> It looks much more inspired by Fortran given any examination of
> a program source example.
>

At a conceptual level, the RECORD statement in DIBOL heavily resembles
the COBOL data division definition of variables and structures even if
the actual syntax is very different.

The general "feel" of the procedure section does feel sort-of Fortran-like.

Simon.

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