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

[John Reagan]

On Saturday, July 16, 2022 at 7:46:10 PM UTC-4, 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. 
> 
> 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
I was curious for Pascal.  The last major addition that I added was the SELECT/SELECTONE statement (patterned strongly after the BLISS statements with the same name) in 2006.  Only a few minor tweaks since then.