[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Den 2018-01-24 kl. 00:36, skrev already5chosen at yahoo.com:
> On Wednesday, January 24, 2018 at 1:22:57 AM UTC+2, Jan-Erik Soderholm
> wrote:
>> Den 2018-01-23 kl. 23:58, skrev already5chosen at yahoo.com:
>>> On Tuesday, January 23, 2018 at 6:06:34 PM UTC+2, Stephen Hoffman 
>>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Nobody's mentioned an IDE here yet, and that's basically a 
>>>> requirement for most modern developers.   That means more than a 
>>>> little work in LSEDIT or other VSI tools, and more than a little 
>>>> integration support that the third-party IDE providers can build
>>>> on. Build-related tools, too.  Cmake has been ported, but is not
>>>> yet available.  Work on GNV and its tools.  Etc.  Existing ISVs
>>>> accept where OpenVMS and its tools are, but potential new ISVs are
>>>> going to be a little more particular about the available tools and
>>>> frameworks.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I would imagine that new ISVs would not want native VMS development 
>>> tools at all. They would be more comfortable with Windows-hosted or 
>>> Linux-hosted cross-development.
>>> 
>> 
>> Yes, also thought about that when I saw Hoffs note. I do not see any 
>> major news in the native tools, besides of in the build/compile/link 
>> contexts. Editing sources belongs to the desktop.
> 
> That's not what I meant. I had in mind all code-generation tools also
> running off-VMS, ether on desktop, or, for large projects, on non-VMS
> build server. Only minimal debugger agent runs natively.
> 

Ah, OK... :-) The jury is still out on that one, I guess... :-)