[Info-vax] Micro Focus to be acquired by Open Text

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2022-09-02 kl. 14:24, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
> On 9/2/2022 4:54 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>> Den 2022-09-02 kl. 02:09, skrev Arne Vajhøj:
>>> With the arrival of 8 bit character sets in the form
>>> of DECMCS ~ ISO-8859 ~ ECMA-94 (~ CP-125x) in the mid 80's then
>>> those national variants became obsolete.
>>>
>>> (which was a blessing for all programmers as the values
>>> changed in the national variants are widely used in
>>> programming languages !)
>>
>> I do not think I ever have had any issues with that in Cobol...
> 
> Cobol, Fortran and VMS Basic seems to work fine with
> just ().
> 
> But a lot of languages (C, C++, Pascal, Ada, Java, Python,
> PHP etc.) also use [] and/or {} in their syntax.
> 
>>> So an application using those national variants should
>>> probably have been rewritten sometime in the mid 90's
>>> to use ISO-8859 (and rewritten again late 00's
>>> to use UTF-8).
>>
>> I did write a document with a suggestion to change our
>> applications from 7-bit NRCS to 8-bit MCS (ISO-8859-1).
>> That was in 2008 and it was never done since the system
>> was planned for decomission in "3-4 years" anyway...
> 
> The wellknown:
> 
> $ write sys$output f$fao("This system will be gone by !SL", 
> f$cvtime(,,"YEAR") + 3)
> 
> syndrome.
> 
> :-)
> 
> Arne
> 

Correct. It has been "3-4 years" since I come there in 2006.
Apart from last year, when it changed to "at least 5 years"...

Realy hard to do any long-term planning for the systems.
We are still running on the same DS20e/666 systems that
I installed in May 2006.