[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[bill]

On 3/11/2023 8:04 AM, plugh wrote:
> On Friday, March 10, 2023 at 4:26:53 PM UTC-7, 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?
>>
>> bill
> 
> The pdp-8 had Dibol. I can't think of any other business-oriented language; Wikipedia isn't much help on that search. Mabye Dibol-11 was for migration. Much good code was written for the 8 that a business case could be made to move such to the 11. I'm sure there was more good code produced, but the stuff from MCBA comes to mind.

Having no experience with the PDP-8 I didn't know DIBOL started there.
My first DIBOL was DIBOL-11.  Maybe I had it backwards and it was RPG
that came out as an answer to DIBOL.

bill