In article <92plgm$ktl13@news.kvaerner.com>, "Tarjei T. Jensen" <tarjei.jensen@kvaerner.com> writes:
> 
> Frode Tenneb� wrote
> I'm not sure what type of application you have, however 15 years ago
> there were a lot fewer languages than today. C++ was not even thought
> of. How many of those languages are alive today? Can you get an
> actively maintained compiler for Cobol on a modern platform? What about

Compaq Cobol on VMS is actively supported.

> Forth? The only laguage I can think of other than Ada and C which has a
> active compiler support is Fortran - even Pascal is struggeling.

as are Compaq Fortran and Compaq Pascal.  I am not sure about Cobol,
but in the case of Fortran and Pascal the developers also follow the
relevant newsgroups to provide beyond-the-contract advice.