[Info-vax] VMS Cobol - GnuCOBOL

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-02-17, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/2023 1:35 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-02-17, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>>> On 2/17/2023 10:53 AM, bill wrote:
>>>>
>>>> While I think DIBOL is a pretty cool language, too, it suffers from
>>>> the same stigma as BLISS.  Not generally available.  COBOL is.
>>>
>>> Bliss is let us call it an "ex-DEC whatever" language.
>>>
>>> But I believe Dibol is available on VMS, Windows, Linux, AIX,
>>> HP-UX and everything that supports .NET (Windows, Linux, macOS).
>>> That is not everything with Cobol but it is a bit more than Bliss.
>>>
>>
>> The main problem is that it's a language that's controlled by one
>> company and which you can only buy from them.
>
> Sorry, but I do not see this as a problem.
>

Yeah, I'm sure all those Java users _really_ appreciate what Oracle have
just done to them... :-)

Fortunately, at least with Java, there are options that some will be able
to move to.

Simon.

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