[Info-vax] Web Browsers on OpenVMS

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-01-02 14:09:49 +0000, Bob Koehler said:

> In article <kb4qmg$kk$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman 
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>> 
>> Xcode is the IDE and is free from the Mac App Store, and the C,
>> Objective C, C++ and Objective C++ compiller (the primary development
>> languages) is based on clang/llvm.
> 
>    Xcode is free for the current OS.  it was not free, even for recently
>    older versions.

Xcode has been free for at least six or seven years and quite probably 
longer than that, and an Xcode kit was present on the OS X distro disks.

Xcode was sold (briefly) for $5 in the Mac App store (right around the 
launch of the Mac App Store), but is now free again.

You do pay for the ability to load code onto an iOS device (access to 
the iOS simulator is free), and you pay for access to a developer ID if 
you want to sign your OS X apps, and to gain access to some other 
developer resources.  OS X developer is US$99 and iOS developer is 
US$99, and the Safari developer program is free.

When I got started with OS X, the developer program was US$499, though 
that program included some additional (and nice) benefits that are not 
part of the new programs.

But Xcode?  Free.

> 
>> gfortran is free, and does work reasonably well on OS X.  I've compiled
>> some stuff with that, and — once I fixed a few bits of syntax that the
>> gfortran compiler was complaining about — the code worked.
> 
>    I haven't been able to get gfortran to work correctly with gdb.
>    Seems like the line numbers are off.  I wonder if one of the two is
>    still assuming Macs are big-endian?

Donno.  I don't do all that much with Fortran anymore.


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