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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/16/20 8:56 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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. :-)
> 

Or real C and ANSI C.  :-)

bill