[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2018-05-11 00:27:59 +0000, seasoned_geek said:

> On Wednesday, May 9, 2018 at 7:12:02 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>> Most business applications today have very few system calls.
>> 
>> A large OO application with a few procedural style system calls is not 
>> that bad.
> 
> Most business applications existing today on OpenVMS are littered with 
> API calls.
> 
> I wrote the only C++/OOP application in existence at one Fortune 50 
> OpenVMS client. Everything else is BASIC and FORTRAN. Mostly BASIC.

You're discussing the past.  That's dead and gone.  It got OpenVMS 
where it is, and it won't change the trends.   The question for VSI — 
beyond keeping the installed base reasonably happy — is about 
increasing usage of the platform, and procedural app designs are not 
where most developers folks are headed.  Then there's that the itemlist 
is an utter disaster of a design given how much glue code ensues and 
how often apps get locked into designs — password hash size, anyone? — 
and there's that munging around inside descriptors or with modern 
strings is an increasing mess.  OO avoids more than does the existing 
OpenVMS designs, and particularly makes many sorts of API upgrades 
easier.  Is OO a panacea?  No.


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