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

[Chris]

On 05/13/18 01:36, Scott Dorsey wrote:

> Ada83 was a monster, it just grew into a bigger one.
> --scott
>

Fwir, The whole point about ADA was that it was formally verifiable,
together with it's internal real time time executive. It  had
rigorous run time checking capability, concurrency and more. It was and
perhaps still is widely used for aerospace, avionics, safety critical
etc and of course military projects. Both those markets have a lot of
money behind them and it might be missing that market by not having
a working compiler. VMS historically was  used in that market
alongside ADA because of it's reliability and security. It was never
relevant to the sort of embedded systems work done here, but can
understand the reasoning behind it. Complex, yes, but most other
languages get nowhere near it's capabilities. More of a system than
a programming language...

Regards,

Chris