[Info-vax] VSI Python 3.8.2 port, with a OpenVMS Shark Logo...

[John Reagan]

On Saturday, November 21, 2020 at 8:39:37 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 11/21/20 8:13 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote: 
> > 
> > BASIC and COBOL haven't seen consequential updates in a couple of 
> > decades, beyond the platform ports. 
> >
> Pretty sure VMS BASIC does everything any other BASIC does and more. :-) 
> 
> As for COBOL, luckily the COBOL world refused to drink the OOP KoolAid 
> so the current COBOL running on OpenVMS has everything that a COBOL 
> Programmer needs. (Sadly, as the number of available COBOL Programmers 
> decreases due to retirement and death the people likely to be tasked 
> with taking over the current COBOL base and writing anything new will 
> probably lead to COBOL also being infected. But, such is the nature of 
> our industry!!) 
> 
> bill
Oh, you haven't been keeping track of the COBOL standards.  It has full OOP in it. 

Ignoring that set of features, the COBOL 2000 standard has several interesting features that VMS COBOL never fully picked up other than a few reserved words.