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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <6311f61c$0$703$14726298 at news.sunsite.dk>,
=?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?= <arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> On 9/2/2022 4:54 AM, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> > Den 2022-09-02 kl. 02:09, skrev Arne VajhÞj:
> >> 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.

Modern Fortran can use [].