[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/15/2018 3:06 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>
>

Maybe Pascal, and other VMS stuff, isn't the squeaky wheels ??

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