[Info-vax] Licenses on VAX/VMS 4.0/4.1 source code listing scans

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 12/14/2021 12:29 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> On 12/14/21 10:49 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> VMS PL/I certainly requires VMS.
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Emulator has worked for me, but I believe Alpha's can be had relative
>> cheap.
> 
> In most cases it costs more to ship one than the whole box is worth.
> Sadly, I have been one of those fixed income retirees you keep hearing
> about for several years now.  And inflation is making it even harder
> to make do.  Afraid there is no spare money for computer hobbies any
> more.  With the price of gas I can't even afford to make road trips
> for FTGH gear any more.  :-)
> 
>> But then you need  to track down the license.
> 
> VSI License is easy to come by.  I have one for the emulators I have
> been trying to get running.

It was the PL/I license I was thinking about,

>>> But I may look into that. Haven't done any serious PL/I for
>>> 40 years but it was fun when I did.
>>
>> There are lots of rare languages to look at.
>>
>> GNU Modula-2 runs great on Linux.
> 
> I was never impressed with Modula.  Not even when it got all
> the way up to 2.  :-)

I think Modula-2 was a very nice language.

>>>> Or you could give http://www.iron-spring.com/ a try on
>>>> Linux.
>>>
>>> Didn't know about this but a quick look shows  a beta that
>>> is, at least so far, incomplete.  But then, it's free and
>>> you get what you pay for.
>>
>> Too bad that Raincode only offer their Cobol compiler for
>> free and not their PL/I compiler.
> 
> OK, I guess, if you want to do Windows.  :-)

They do have a Linux version too.

Arne