Pondering. Computer Business. How serious this gets will be dependent on comments.

[btiffin]

On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 20:37:45 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grostad 
wrote:

>
>> can anyone see D with Business saddles?
>
> No idea, are they interested in something that does not have 
> IBM approval?

First up, I'm answering this after assuming the "they" in are 
they interested, is the COBOL standard folk, not the D team.  If 
the open question is from the point of view of the D team, then 
this answer is off page.

The COBOL Standards people go out of their way to describe it as 
an industry language, not proprietary or beholden to any 
particular corporation.  Although dropped in the latest ISO docs, 
this was always (circa 1960) included in the preamble for 
Standard COBOL:

> COBOL is an industry language and is not the property of any 
> company or group
of companies, or of any organization or group of organizations.

That was on purpose, to avoid the impression of Yet Another IBM 
monopoly.

Cheers,
Blue