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

[1tim....@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 8:05:16 AM UTC-7, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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?? 
> >
> And what's this "import" thing? I just looked in my DIBOL-11 
> manual and couldn't find any reference to it. Could it be this 
> really isn't DIBOL at all? :-) 
> 
> bill


you can compile legacy Dibol, modern DBL, mix the two, call OpenVMS routines, mix languages - whatever. It's still DBL (Dibol). You can Mix OO code with 80's era Dibol - ask me how I know :-)