[Info-vax] OpenVMS 9.1 C Compiler

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 9/24/21 6:58 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 9/24/2021 6:47 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 9/24/21 5:17 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>> On 9/24/2021 1:51 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>> On 2021-09-24, Andrew Brehm <andrew at netneurotic.net> wrote:
>>>>> On 24/09/2021 15:52, Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
>>>>>> Den 2021-09-24 kl. 14:08, skrev Andrew Brehm:
>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Everything else is excusable (no web server, no database server
>>>>>>> etc.) but an OS must have a shell and a compiler or assembler for
>>>>>>> some language at a minimum.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I hope 9.2 will be complete.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Other than that I was not too unhappy with 9.1. Installation is
>>>>>>> quite fluent (even if a bit annoying with the serial connection)
>>>>>>> and the boot manager is very nice.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Now... VSI has been *very* clear about the situation around 
>>>>>> compilers.
>>>>>> I do not understand why you complain about that now or why you
>>>>>> expected
>>>>>> anything else than what has been clearly communicated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> What complaining?
>>>>
>>>> You may not have intended it as such, but the above did come across
>>>> as complaining about the compiler situation, and for all the policy
>>>> communications complaints I have about VSI, they have indeed been
>>>> very clear about the compiler situation.
>>>>
>>>> Now perhaps if I ask John how he's getting on with an Ada compiler ? 
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>>> Simon.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Only if you write the question on the back of a $100M bill will he
>>> reply ...
>>>
>>
>> That's not really necessary,  The answer is there isn't going
>> to be one unless ADACore does it and that is hardly likely.
>>
>> bill
>>
> 
> What?  You doubt that John would come up with something for a hundred 
> million?  Bet for that much ADAcore would too.
> 

No, I just doubt that anyone is going to come up with even a penny.
Sad, really, when you realize that like many other things Ada got
it's start on VMS which had one of the first validated compilers.
I remember well the work being done on the 11/750 at West Point
and how everyone logged off the machine when the Ada compiler was
in use because it pretty much grinded to a halt.  :-)

bill