[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/11/2023 1:24 AM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 3/10/2023 7:15 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 10/03/2023 23:56, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> I am sure you could add a few more...
>>
> 
> But why would you want to ??

Point is that for programming languages people seems to
have different preferences resulting in demand for a large
number of different programming languages.

One size does not fit all. Five sizes does not fit all
either. Twenty sizes may fit all.

Arne