[Info-vax] DIBOL-11

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/13/2023 9:47 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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/

OK

> 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.

They seem to be on the net today:

https://www.synergex.com/docs/#lrm/1_Welcome_Syn_Lang.htm

https://www.synergex.com/docs/#sdi/Title_sdi.htm

Arne