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

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Tue Dec 22 09:58:16 EST 2020


On 12/21/20 9:07 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/21/2020 3:15 PM, 1tim.... at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Saturday, December 19, 2020 at 6:35:01 PM UTC-7, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/19/2020 5:44 PM, 1tim.... at gmail.com wrote:
>>>> here is a more modern Dibol example - not 99 bottles of beer. it was 
>>>> written just to test a String parser class, written in Dibol.
>>>>
>>>> import parser
>>>> import System.Collections
>>>>
>>>> record
>>>>
>>>> parse , at StringParser
>>>> arry , at ArrayList
>>>> proc
>>>> parse = new StringParser() ;; create instance of parser
>>> Again the code is for .NET platform (System.Collections.ArrayList).
>>>
>>> If all modern Dibol code is being written for .NET (.NET is a great
>>> platform so I can understand that) then that may explain why
>>> Dibol on VMS x86-64 is still TBD.
>  >
>  > wrong, that is OpenVMS Code. And Linux Code. That is Modern DBL
> 
> 
> You got System.Collections.ArrayList on VMS??
> 

If he does, it wasn't ported from RSTS or RSX.  :-)

bill





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