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

[gérard Calliet]

Le 08/06/2019 à 01:39, Arne Vajhøj a écrit :
> On 6/7/2019 6:02 AM, gérard Calliet wrote:
>> Le 06/06/2019 à 20:29, Scott Dorsey a écrit :
>>> 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...
> 
> Ada is far from dead.
> 
> But it is a niche language today.
> 
> Arne
> 
VMS is far from dead.

But it is a niche OS today.

For both, reasons to choose them, and a lot of work to transform these 
reasons in original new trends. Adacore is successfull. VSI will be.

The "work" I think about is about role of the community. I think we can 
learn from this role in the Adacore success.

Gérard Calliet