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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/3/2022 7:12 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 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").

Thinking about it - the PHP programmers would also miss $.

:-)

>>> 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.

I wonder whether the <> support was due to ISO-646-national.

Arne