[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:40:40 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 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.

But I also heard of a very successful assembler written in COBOL. Just 
the right tool for the job. Handled fixed format input, good with 
character data, good with fixed format output...even a built in sort for 
the symbol table.




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