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

[btiffin]

Aside from a nice thank you for the input...

On Tuesday, 25 May 2021 at 22:01:46 UTC, tsbockman wrote:

>
> Out of curiosity, what else do you consider to be a "Computer 
> Business" language? Java?

Nope.  Java is base-2 math by default.  It tries hard to be 
Enterprise (and does not a bad job), but I don't count it as 
Business.  Rexx is base-10 math, designed by Mike Cowlishaw, who 
is also responsible for a lot of the base-10 libraries in use and 
development.  But, Rexx is a scripting language, counts as a 
Computer Science language (in my opinion).

I count things like Digital's DIBOL, or maybe (this is stretching 
things), SAP and PeopleSoft, but I count those as more Enterprise 
Computer Science applications.

SQL might count, but engines are usually implemented with base-2 
arithmetic, so it doesn't, really.  But it could.

Computer Business is a very narrow field, one of the reasons 
COBOL still rules the roost.  No real competition.  A lot of the 
Engineering languages are being left behind now too, FOCAL and 
the like are not really getting much focused attention (*given my 
limited view of the vast vast world*).  Everyone wants to compete 
in the general Computer Science arena.  All good, but it does 
make standing out quite a bit harder.  Popularity in computer 
science programming languages is mostly random luck and too much 
"good enough is good enough".  (Or, in the Java land case, a 500 
million dollar intro campaign meant to guarantee more eyeballs).  
Computer Business is rather boring in terms of programming, but 
an absolute necessity to many behind the scenes.

And again, thanks for the insights.

I guess the thing I'm looking out for is "Don't!", and if that 
doesn't happen, then I might try a few things to test waters.  A 
"we don't care" is ok, as long as it isn't a "Don't! it will 
dilute the goals of the core team at a time the core team can't 
afford distractions" or "we have no plans to cater to Business" 
(as in my definition of Computer Business programming, not that D 
doesn't want to help any businesses, which I'm sure it does 
(both, want to and already helping)).   ;-)

Have good,
Blue