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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/16/22 19:46, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Define "newer standards".  If you mean OO you are probably right.
But there were a lot of other things added in the newer standards
that are used all the time.

And even the OO is used, but not as often as some would have liked.

bill