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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-12-16, Steve Ives <steve.ives at gmail.com> wrote:
> By the way, just a bit of fun. In modern "DIBOL", written in Visual Studio (optional), bottles of beer can now be done like this:
>
> proc
>     data i, int
>     for i from 99 thru 1 by -1
>         Console.WriteLine("{0} Bottle{2} of Beer on the wall,{1}{0} Bottle{2} of Beer,{1}Take one down, pass it around,{1}{0} Bottle{2} of Beer on the wall.'{1}",i,%char(13)+%char(10),i>1?"s":"")
>

That's not your grandfather's DIBOL. :-)

That's like the difference between Fortran 77 and the current Fortran
standards. :-)

Simon.

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