[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Dave Froble]

On 3/10/2023 7:15 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> On 10/03/2023 23:56, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> On 3/10/2023 6:26 PM, bill wrote:
>>> Just something that popped into my head that I thought I would share.
>>>
>>> I wondered why DIBOL came into being at all given what was already
>>> available from DEC.  And then it hit me.  It was obviously DEC's
>>> answer to IBM's RPG.
>>>
>>> Does that sound right to anyone else?
>>
>> I don't know Dibol - my understanding is that
>> it is a sort of a hybrid between Cobol and Basic.
>> I don't know RPG either.
>>
>> But anyway.
>>
>> They had Cobol, Basic and PL/I among what I would
>> call clearly business oriented languages plus Pascal,
>> Fortran and Ada  that also sometimes was used for
>> such programming.
>>
>> But I am not so surprised they wanted Dibol as well.
>> There tend to always be a pretty broad palette of
>> programming languages for such general purpose.
>> Different domains, different developer preferences
>> etc. tend to steer towards many programming languages.
>> Having 4 or 7 languages does not seem
>> excessive to me.
>>
>> If someone wanted to start such an application today,
>> then they would have even more choices. Java, Scala, Kotlin,
>> Groovy, C#, VB.NET, PHP and Python are definitely used for such
>> plus C, C++ and Go are also used for such.
>>
>> Arne
>>
>
> I am sure you could add a few more...
>

But why would you want to ??

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