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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2022-09-02 16:58, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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:
> 
> ¤

Yeah. I think the official name is "currency symbol" or something like 
that. People just said "sol" (Swedish for "sun").
> 
>> 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 []?

Nope. VMS and RSX have that, but RSTS/E didn't/don't.

   Johnny