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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/14/21 1:02 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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,

Oh, I thought the previous post said hobbyist licenses for the
Kednos PL/I compiler were still available.

> 
>>>> 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.

To each his own.  I saw it as an attempt to get people to stop
using Pascal for the things it was never intended to for.  And
then it started to grow.

> 
>>>>> 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.

I must have missed that in my quick perusal of their web page. I
thought they said they were for .NET.

bill