[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Dave Froble]

On 3/11/2023 9:20 AM, bill wrote:
> 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
>

Or maybe nothing to do with each other?

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