[Info-vax] Development webinar

[John Wallace]

On Nov 18, 12:26 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> Not sure who attended the OpenVMS development tools webinar yesterday
> but it was nice to know that HP is still developing stuff. There was a
> brief overview of available open source software: CSWS (Apache). ANT,
> AXIS2, SOAP (AXIS), gSOAP, GNV, WSIT to only list seven.
>
> There was a brief overview of changes made to Alpha + Itanium
> compilers including: COBOL. BASIC, FORTRAN, Pascal, C, C++.
>
> Neil Rieck
> Kitchener / Waterloo / Cambridge,
> Ontario, Canada.http://www3.sympatico.ca/n.rieck/OpenVMS.html

I've had a quick read, got a couple of quick queries on the content.

On slide 27, I recognise all the legacy ( = "stuff that works")
buzzwords, except for the programming language IAS? The only IAS I
know is a DEC PDP11 OS, last seen at V3.1. What might this one be?
Googling for IAS 7.00.4160 reveals that this was also the version of
IAS on a familiar-looking slide 22 in a 2006 "Porting to Integrity"
presentation:
http://gerritwoertman.eu/NL-VMSTUD2006/NL-VMSTUD-2006-pdf/Porting%20VMS%20applications%20to%20Integrity.pdf

Ada is also mentioned on slide 27. GNAT gets a mention. Is Ian M
around? Does he want to say a quick word wrt XD-Ada's current status?
Yes there are still people happily using VMS to build Ada applications
(source compatible with DEC Ada) for M68000 targets (that's what XD
Ada does), and it might be good for them to know what their options
might be should they wish to move to more modern hardware without
going the VAX/Alpha emulation route.