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

[Arne Vajhøj]

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.

Cobol, Fortran and Pascal are all used.

And so is Basic.

What Basic is most known for probably depends on who you ask.

To me Basic is most known for VB6 and VBS that were two of the
most widely used programming languages back in the late 90's and
early 00's.

Arne