[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 5/15/2018 12:28 PM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 15, 2018 at 11:16:02 AM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> For now, having and selling OpenVMS on x86-64 is the only reasobable
>> path forward for VSI OpenVMS on new hardware.
> 
> But we aren't gointo have OpenVMS on x86-64. We are going to have a *nix that sucks

All indications from VSI is that they are building OpenVMS on x86-64.

Very close to as-is in the beginning and then modernize along
the way.

I think you are the only one talking about VMS becoming a *nix.

There has been plenty of requests for more modern development tools,
more modern security features, more modern API's etc..

But those features does not imply *nix.

> and ___NOBODY___ has officially answered the question as to what the
> target market is for this port and how that target will be served.
The people able to give an official answer on VSI's behalf does
probably not read comp.os.vms/INFO-VAX.

:-)

> Everybody has heard all of this talk about Go and Rust and script
> language of the week and jumping to LLVM based compilers pretty much
> ensuring the bulk of the existing code base won't compile because
> *nix couldn't handle all of the VMS extensions which are in use.
The fact that most of the VMS compilers on x86-64 will use LLVM as
backend does not break anything. The VMS frontends will accept all
the features and LLVM will generate appropriate instructions for
x86-64.

Adding Go and/or Rust is not official VSI plan as far as I know.
It is languages being suggested by some people here as potential
replacements for Macro/Bliss/C for VMS itself and some low level
applications. Adding them should not remove any existing
compilers.

Adding script languages is probably planned and certainly useful
for the future. But again adding them should not remove any existing
compilers.

Arne