[Info-vax] September 6, 2016 - new Roadmap and State of the Port updates now on VSI website

[Simon Clubley]

On 2016-09-11, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
> In article <d727821d-5f5c-411c-a079-50fa54d06b1d at googlegroups.com>, IanD
><iloveopenvms at gmail.com> writes: 
>
>> Is gnu released as part of OpenVMS now? Isn't it a separate download? Why? 
>> Why isn't it part of the standard OpenVMS distribution and install?
>
> Check out Stallman's Gnu philosophy.  Basically, and I'm putting it 
> lightly, anyone who uses proprietary software is some sort of fascist 
> and should be shot on the spot.  I don't think Gnu wants VMS, and does 
> VMS really need Gnu?  To be unix-compatible, perhaps, but the emphasis 
> should be on portable data formats, not the tools to produce them.
>

With those comments in mind, what would you have done for the compiler
situation which VSI faced ? Would you have also gone with LLVM or would
you have written your own compilers from scratch ?

Simon.

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