[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 05/08/2018 11:34 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 5/8/2018 11:09 AM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> As for those wondering why Free Pascal might be more interesting than 
>> the existing OpenVMS implementation, have a look at the difference in 
>> features: https://freepascal.org/docs-html/ref/ref.html  Among other 
>> differences, OpenVMS Pascal hasn't yet added object-oriented 
>> programming support.   Wouldn't surprise me to find that some future 
>> version of Pascal for OpenVMS either incorporates some of the features 
>> from Free Pascal, Delphi and ilk, though that's some years into the 
>> future and long after the completion of the OpenVMS x86-64 port.  Or 
>> maybe Free Pascal gets ported to OpenVMS x86-64.  Most of the 
>> "traditional" OpenVMS programming languages and the associated and 
>> underlying OpenVMS APIs and the vendors' development tools haven't 
>> moved forward substantially in ~twenty years.  Yes, VSI does aim to 
>> change that.
> 
> Software development on VMS definitely need to move to OO.
> 

https://medium.com/@cscalfani/goodbye-object-oriented-programming-a59cda4c0e53

https://dzone.com/articles/whats-the-future-for-oo-programming-languages

https://www.leaseweb.com/labs/2015/08/object-oriented-programming-is-exceptionally-bad/

https://medium.com/@vyaron/the-returning-of-the-rich-client-aa545ced5a9a

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/alfredth/2011/03/22/object-oriented-programming-is-dead/

Some light reading for all the OOP advocates.  While I agree with them
these are "not just my opinion".  Does it still make me a troll?

bill