[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Bob Eager]

On Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:37:35 +0000, Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> 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? :-)

Sorry...what's that? Only RIM I know is a loader...!




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