11 Feb
2006
11 Feb
'06
8:56 a.m.
Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:
In article <200602102104.k1AL4jY6017614 at
mwave.heeltoe.com>,
Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com> writes:
DIBOL lives on... significant chunks of large car reservation systems
are still written and maintained in it, one of the more recent upgrades
including TCP/IP networking to other back-end systems.
Under VMS, DIBOL makes most excellent use of descriptors in calling
system services etc. IMHO it is even more "natural" feeling than
MACRO or BLISS.
DIBOL is like COBOL in the same way that a BMW is like
a Steam Locomotive.
Tim.
I thought DIBOL used it also.
Wow, someone mentioned DIBOL :-).
My 11/03 came with a DIBOL manual and apparently there are some .DBL
files sprinkled around the disk packs (I haven't inventoried them
completely yet).
I hadn't heard of DIBOL until I got this system, probably because we
didn't have it for our 11/70 and I never cared for COBOL anyway :-).