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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/2/2022 10:48 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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.

True.

Typical:

¤

> 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. :-)

Did it allow <> instead of []?

Arne