[Info-vax] Free Pascal for VMS ?

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue May 15 19:33:32 EDT 2018


On 5/15/2018 11:59 AM, seasoned_geek wrote:
> On Monday, May 14, 2018 at 8:30:06 PM UTC-5, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> I do not remember having hear anyone wanting to make VMS a Linux distro.
>>
>> There is a vocal wish to get all the new stuff that are available
>> elsewhere Linux, Windows and to some extent the remainders of
>> commercial Unix.
> 
> Which is the same as wishing for a *nix which sucks. Each and every
> chunk of that is going to require a complete bastardization of the
> existing product.
I don't see how:
* adding support for newer standards to existing compilers
* adding new compilers and script engines
* adding new development support tools
* getting more application servers running
* getting more web servers running
* getting more databases running
* etc.etc.
should require any bastardization.

Arne





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