[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:20:05 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> I have seen an amazing bunch of stuff written in a lot of different
> languages.  Screen Control routines in COBOL.  Editors and even a
> database system written in Fortran.  And most of them required that you
> violate some standard at some point in the program.  Amazing what some
> people will do to save a buck or prove a point.

Anyone seen a VAX database-ish product called Millennium? Dun and 
Bradstreet? Early 1990s I think.

It had an SQL-type language called PDL. Compiler (compiling to an 
interpretive code) written in COBOL. Run-time interpreter written in 
COBOL. Made some sense as the rest of the system was all COBOL, and the 
source and 'object' were all stored in the database system.

It was originally developed on a non-VAX system with VERY expensive 
compilers.


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