[Info-vax] Programming languages on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/24/2018 7:53 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2018-01-24, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 1/24/2018 1:59 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>>      It is always a bad idea to bet on non-standard features in
>>> any language.  It is one of the reasons Pascal languished outside
>>> of academia (which is where it was designed for, not to teach a
>>> language but to teach concepts.)
>>
>> Really?
>>
>> The by far largest Pascal code base must have been
>> TurboPascal & Delphi on PC.
> 
> And there's a free version with a very active user community:
> 
> https://www.freepascal.org/

If anyone want to try then they should probably take
the Lazarus IDE which comes with FPC.

https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

It is pretty impressive.

But its commercial usage is rather limited.

Arne