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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 7/16/2022 8:06 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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".

2002 and 2014.

>                            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.

Besides OO then I believe the biggest items are
pointer and dynamic allocation/freeing, XML support
and collection classes.

Are they widely used?

Arne