/me wonders how many script kiddies have gotten excited to learn there's apparently a language specifically for creating role-playing games...
On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 2:07 AM Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > Frank Swarbrick asked: > >Is Pascal also still supported/used? > > IBM VS Pascal (5668-767) is still IBM marketed and supported: > > https://www.ibm.com/support/lifecycle/#/details?q45=M618799U16404L24 > > The New Stanford Pascal Compiler is also available: > > https://github.com/StanfordPascal/Pascal > http://bernd-oppolzer.de/job9.htm > > Here are some more classic programming language compilers that are > currently IBM marketed and supported, in no particular order: > > APL2 (5688-228) > https://www.ibm.com/support/lifecycle/#/details?q45=D543769I30278S34 > > BASIC (5665-948) > https://www.ibm.com/support/lifecycle/#/details?q45=G568183M36263P96 > > RPG II > This one is a little extra obscure, but yes, it's still IBM marketed and > supported. The IBM Program Number is 5740-RG1. The z/VSE variant > (5746-RG1) is listed more visibly here: > https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/dosvs-rpg-ii > There's a little bit of confusion about RPG in large part because there > was a relatively briefly marketed RPG compiler introduced years later > called "IBM SAA RPG/370." This specific, very different compiler > (5688-127) was withdrawn from marketing and is no longer IBM supported, > but the previously introduced RPG II compiler is still an active IBM > product. > > IBM's Prolog, Lisp, Ada, Algol, Smalltalk, and COMTRAN compilers are > withdrawn and past their End of Service dates, but it's likely there are > some of these compiled programs still running, even with some periodic > code changes. In some cases there may be available and supported > programming language offerings from other parties. Some may target Java > Virtual Machine (JVM) and/or z/OS Container Extensions (zCX) runtimes. > > There's a supported JOVIAL compiler available for z/OS and z/VM: > http://www.seadeo.com/IBM_Compilers.htm > > If there's some other programming language's status you'd like me to > research, please ask. And obviously IBM markets and supports C, C++, REXX, > COBOL, PL/I, Java, EGL, HLASM, and several other programming languages > (JavaScript, Swift, Python, IBM Migration Utility....) > > - - - - - - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > I.T. Architect Executive > Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions > IBM Z & LinuxONE > - - - - - - - - - - > E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
