[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Monday, 22 January 2018 09:26:22 UTC, gérard Calliet  wrote:
> Le 22/01/2018 à 02:02, Simon Clubley a écrit :
> > The recent revelation that a modern Ada is no longer available for VMS
> Hello Simon,
> 
> The discution you quote says "there is a modern Ada available for VMS". 
> Ok, not a beautifull package from HP or AdaCore or VSI or IBM, but used, 
> and the question of its future depends on its utilisation.
> Ok, there is not yet a debugger... There was'nt, it seems, with AdaCore, 
> and there will be something soon or later.
> 
> And, on the other side, you are right. It could exist some langages 
> faced to disparition. DIBOL is one of them. I know a small company who 
> supports the langage for itself, because the other offers are not so 
> good for her.
> 
> And generally, I agree on the vigilance, and my opinion is, as usual: 
> the community can and have to be more pro-active.
> 
> Gérard Calliet

Being pro-active is often helpful, sometimes being willing to 
invest/spend may be more important. 

E.g. based on personal experience, I would be very surprised if 
a company like AdaCore would refuse a profitable opportunity just 
because it was non-mainstream or unfashionable. (Sometimes I am 
surprised). 

But for that opportunity to happen at all needs customers (or 
even just one customer with sufficient money) to be willing to 
think about spending, and for both parties to perceive 'value' 
in what they get in return.