[Info-vax] link to what is actually being ported to x86?

[gérard Calliet]

Le 06/06/2019 à 20:29, Scott Dorsey a écrit :
> Simon Clubley  <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>> On 2019-06-06, gérard Calliet <gerard.calliet at pia-sofer.fr> wrote:
>>>
>>> One important aspect here is the information. As for VMS it is important
>>> to say "there is a clear future for Ada on VMS, and there is now support
>>> for it". Because this information inhibit somehow the wrong decisions to
>>> go out from VMS.
>>>
>>
>> But the problem Gerard is that there _isn't_ a clear future for Ada
>> on VMS. At the end of next month VSI will have been around for 5 years
>> and VSI still don't have a clear answer.
The old problem of the hen and the egg. There is not future because 
there is not any clear answer, and there is not a clear answer because 
there is not future.
Said anothe way: we can't do anything because we don't do anything.

In the same time, there are:
- the old DEC ada solution on alpha (still used)
- a lot of very old solutions on VAX (used in a lot of situation)
- my build of Gnat Ada for Itanium (used)
But - as for VMS in the general world - "we have not a clear answer 
about Ada on VMS". We had a clear answer about VMS when people *did* 
something for VMS. Same thing with Ada on VMS, just needing some 
collaboration and true information.
> 
> VMS has little to do with it.  There isn't a clear future for Ada.
> Which is a shame.
I don't agree.

I was at a symposium of Adacore in Paris months ago. The Ada ecosystem 
is going well. Very interesting to see how young people do like using 
Ada althought it has been thought of as "old, dead...". And it is about 
for the same reasons that Ada gets a revival: safety, perenity, quality 
of software developed on it...

So it would of interest to join VMS revival and Ada revival.

(The point where Adacore is better: they understood the importance of 
collaboration with the community).
> --scott
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