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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/15/2022 7:02 PM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Den 2022-07-15 kl. 22:56, skrev 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:
>>>>> 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
>>
> 
> Well, Cobol, as a language, is fairly stable and well documented,
> so there is usually very few reasons to ask questions about Cobol
> as such.

I don't think that makes Cobol unique in the VMS world.

VMS Cobol does not support newer standards - and supposedly nobody
use the newer standards anyway.

VMS Fortran and VMS C++ does not support newer standards - but those
newer standards are used on other platforms.

VMS Pascal and VMS Basic are very much VMS specific languages, but
no dramatic changes the last 25 years.

VMS C is the only "hot topic" due to the C99 features phase in,
the 32 bit vs 64 bit pointers issue etc..

Arne