[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/15/2018 12:08 PM, John Reagan wrote:
> Ding, ding, ding.  We have a winner!
> 
> For the surveys we've received for possible V9 x86 early
> adopters/testers, Pascal has been high on the list.  The spread of
> OpenVMS languages is not what the rest of the world expects.
> 
> And I've already hooked the Pascal frontend to our GEM-to-LLVM
> converter and have generated code.  We've been debugging some issues
> with Pascal SETs as that uses GEM datatypes that neither BLISS or C
> has pushed on so far.  Of course, I can't really execute anything
> yet.  (I could hack up a Linux testbench since we used to have a
> libpas.so on Tru64 that would probably work but by the time I get it
> working, I won't need it)

The VMS user base and the IT industry in general are
very different.

Half the popular stuff is not even available on VMS.

But even considering that then I am surprised about the
Pascal interest.

Pascal is probably the most "modern" language on VMS
after C++ (not counting script languages and Java stuff).

But it is very rare that I see questions related to
Pascal here.

Arne