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

[Dave Froble]

On 12/22/2020 10:02 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/21/20 11:16 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 12/21/2020 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??
>>>
>>> Arne
>>
>> I got no idea what that is, but, why not?  I'm assuming that it is
>> some procedure, and such can be implemented in almost any language.
>> Doesn't mean there is not a lot of code behind the capability, just
>> that the user doesn't have to write that code.  A bit like what
>> everyone seems to like about things such as Python.
>>
>
> Like with COBOL and a number of other legacy languages my objection
> is when they totally change the language and still have the nerve to
> call it what it was.  Like calling "DELPHI" "Pascal" or calling "ANSI
> C" "C".  If you want a new language then give it a new name and stop
> pretending it's something it is not.  Kinda like calling "Windows"
> "VMS" because Cutler helped develop it.
>
> bill
>

Well Bill, they don't call it DIBOL, they call it DBL.

Regardless, when extensions are made to an existing language, I would 
not consider it "totally change".

As for me, I'm sort of tired of all the re-named stuff proliferating as 
it does ....

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