[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[DaveFroble]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 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.
>>
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> https://medium.com/@cscalfani/goodbye-object-oriented-programming-a59cda4c0e53 
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> https://dzone.com/articles/whats-the-future-for-oo-programming-languages
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> https://www.leaseweb.com/labs/2015/08/object-oriented-programming-is-exceptionally-bad/ 
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> https://medium.com/@vyaron/the-returning-of-the-rich-client-aa545ced5a9a
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> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/alfredth/2011/03/22/object-oriented-programming-is-dead/ 
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> 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

No Bill, you're doing good now ..

:-)


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