[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <7j9n4cF34f1s1U18 at mid.individual.net>,
	Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
> 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.

Well, as long as we're asking.... Anybody got the source to RIM? :-)

bill

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