[Info-vax] VMS Software needs to port VAX DIBOL to OpenVMS X86 platform
Steve Ives
steve.ives at gmail.com
Wed Dec 16 23:17:39 EST 2020
On Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 5:49:56 PM UTC-8, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/16/2020 3:24 PM, Steve Ives 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":"")
> Is that just for .NET platform or have you
> implemented Console.WriteLine for native as well?
>
> Arne
In this form it's .NET code, but we do have Console.WriteLine in traditional DBL (DIBOL) also. But it doesn't do all the String.Format() substitution stuff.
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