[Info-vax] Ada on VMS, was: Re: Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/12/2018 4:53 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 12:05:35 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman
> wrote:
>> 
>> some alternative approach on OpenVMS, and see if you can find a
>> market of folks that are fond of Ada or Pascal and that want
>> OpenVMS.
> 
> There is a large pile of ADA on VMS still in production and there is
> no way off. While I don't do ADA, I know that most systems developed
> in ADA __had__ to be developed in ADA. There was something unique ADA
> brought which didn't exist elsewhere

DoD required/encouraged the use of Ada 1991-1997.

That was a main driver for adaptation.

>                         which is why a GNU type approach
> of translating all languages to GNU internal language and compiling
> that won't work.

GNU Ada (GNAT) is one of the most widely used Ada compilers.

Arne