[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:03:30 +0200, P. Sture wrote:

> In article <7j7128F34epr5U2 at mid.individual.net>,
>  billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (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.
>> 
>> 
> I remember reading the case for doing that for one of those COBOL
> compilers, and it seemed pretty convincing at the time. To me anyway.
> 
> But this brings us to the price of compilers. Most of my customers in
> the VAX era had a COBOL compiler and that was it. Wrong tool or not,
> COBOL did get used for systems programming on occasion (and yours truly
> did it, though only for low volumes of data).

I was always amazed at the amount of stuff written in FORTRAN. I used 
something for monitoring users' terminals, and that was in FORTRAN.



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