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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/16/22 01:00, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 7/15/2022 10:33 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
>> A bigger question would be other than Dave how much of the VMS
>> application base still uses BASIC.   :-)
> 
> A decent indicator of that is Clair Grant saying a while back that there 
> would always be a Basic compiler on VMS, or, something to that effect.  
> Perhaps he has a better feel for the user base?
> 

Probably true, but you have to admit that in a world where COBOL
(the first serious business programming language) is considered
dead and languages like Fortran, Pascal and even Ada don't even
rate a mention in a CS degree program it is pretty funny that a
children's programming language best known for things like the
TRS-80 and VIC-20 is still in use.

bill