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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/16/22 09:52, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 7/16/2022 8:35 AM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> 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
> 
> "children's programming language best known for things like the
> TRS-80 and VIC-20"
> 
> I'm not sure that you intended that to be derogatory, or just your 
> opinion, but the Basic Plus language produced by EG&H was not the same 
> as some Basic languages.  It had many good features, and, was quite 
> adequate for business programming, and other uses.  The name may be 
> shared, but the implementations were very different.  As DEC Basic, and 
> follow-ons, it has only gotten better.
> 

So did COBOL.  And what did that get it?

bill