[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <slrnhcqtmn.n64.rivie at stench.no.domain>,
	Roger Ivie <rivie at ridgenet.net> writes:
> On 2009-10-08, Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>> It was  Fortran IV on a Univac 1100 running Exec-8.  Of
>> course, the programs in question were also proof that it is not
>> only C that gets used for the wrong purposes.  These were business
>> applications written in Fortran by engineers who needed something
>> to doto keep them busy during slow summers. 
> 
> A friend of mine wrote a compiler in Microsoft's FORTRAN for CP/M.

I know (knew) of at least one commercial COBOL compiler that claimed to
be written in COBOL.  It's not just people writing business apps in C
that are using the wrong tool for the job.

bill

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