[Info-vax] General Availability of 9.2 for x86-64

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/15/2022 4:12 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 7/15/22 15:05, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 7/15/2022 10:35 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>> On 7/15/22 09:08, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>>> On 7/15/2022 9:02 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>> On 2022-07-14, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>>>>> https://vmssoftware.com/about/roadmap/ says:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> July
>>>>>> OpenVMS V9.2 (Limited Production Release)
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Native compilers with LLVM backend code generator:
>>>>>>       BLISS, XMACRO, C++ (Phase 1)
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> July-November
>>>>>> ...
>>>>>> Additional native compilers
>>>>>>       C, COBOL, and C++ (Phase 2 ? VMS Extensions)
>>>>>
>>>>> Interesting that COBOL is a way higher priority than Fortran.
>>>>
>>>> I think that was to be expected.
>>>
>>> Wonder where all of these VMS COBOL users are.
>>
>> You do see COBOL questions here occasionally.
> 
> Can't remember the last time I saw one.

Google finds 3 question the last 12 months:

Brian June 10th
Jan-Erik September 20th
Jan-Erik August 14th

(I will not insult Brian by calling him a Cobol user,
but there must be some Cobol usage involved)

>> It seems fair to assume that some portion of VMS
>> sites has some business applications in Cobol
>> using either index-sequential files or Rdb (or maybe
>> even traditional Oracle).
> 
> Being how most VMS sites still think of things like the right
> tool for the job I would not be surprised. 

:-)

Arne