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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-02 14:24, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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.

Well, BASIC is really fond of $, which usually also gets replaced with 
another character in these NRCS. ;-)

I'll leave it at that.

But I sortof half-fondly remember using RSTS/E in Sweden in the early 
80s. Accounts were PPNs, enclosed in brackets. Also used for the 
directory. I had Ä120,114Å. :-)

   Johnny