[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Simon Clubley]

On 2023-03-10, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> 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.
>

More like the functionality of Cobol and Fortran (with syntax that is
_nothing_ like Cobol :-))

Have a look for yourself:

https://bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/dibol/

Modern Synergex DIBOL is nothing like the old DIBOL in terms of
functionality BTW. However, those manuals were behind a paywall
(and only legally available as part of a contract) when I last
used Synergex DIBOL, so they are not freely available to view.

Simon.

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