[Info-vax] Opportunity for VSI?

[Dave Froble]

On 12/15/2018 3:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>
>

Or, possibly, it works so well there are no questions?

I don't use the language.  Shhh, don't tell John ...


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