[Info-vax] VSI Python 3.8.2 port, with a OpenVMS Shark Logo...

[Chris Townley]

On 22/11/2020 01:13, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2020-11-22 00:53:11 +0000, Chris Townley said:
> 
>> On 22/11/2020 00:38, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>> Den 2020-11-22 kl. 00:27, skrev Chris Townley:
>>>>
>>>> No, I am on the CL a license!
>>>>
>>>> When I saw the announcement, I thought something else I can play 
>>>> with, but perhaps not...
>>>
>>> If you just like to play with Python, the Python 2 kit for VMS works 
>>> just fine. https://www.vmspython.org/doku.php
>>
>> But I have only played with Python 3
> 
> OpenVMS is probably not the best platform to learn about new software 
> and new apps.
> 
> Learning about older software, older apps, and older configurations, yes.
> 
> Little of what development tooling is presently available for OpenVMS is 
> a current version.
> 
> Some isn't even a remotely recent version.
> 
> While there are a few exceptions to this, Fortran, C, and C++ are all 
> compliant with older standards.
> 
> The C support was only recently updated to add some pieces central to C99.
> 
> BASIC and COBOL haven't seen consequential updates in a couple of 
> decades, beyond the platform ports.
> 
> VSI is working to address this and other issues, and has discussed 
> compiler updates, but pretty much all of the new VSI work and the VSI 
> updates are targeting x86-64.
> 
> Call back next year, when the second beta (V9.1, with mostly-native 
> tooling) is expected to be available (for x86-64).


Thanks, but I have a few Raspberry Pis, and have played there. However I 
wanted to justify my use of VMS a bit!

Kinda got the VMS bug back!


Chris