[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/15/2018 3:17 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Maybe Pascal, and other VMS stuff, isn't the squeaky wheels ??

I really like Pascal as a language.

But I would still expect heavy Pascal usage to result in
questions, answers, comments, open source etc..

Arne