[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

[Galen]

Richard Maher <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> wrote:
> On 14/04/2022 8:36 am, Dave Froble wrote:
>> On 4/13/2022 2:31 PM, John Reagan wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, April 12, 2022 at 8:48:36 PM UTC-4, Richard Maher
>>> wrote:
>>>> On 11/04/2022 8:52 pm, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>> On 2022-04-10, Richard Maher <maher_rj... at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> On 10/04/2022 3:12 am, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>>>>>> Just a bit of fun.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> When do you think the native x86-64 VMS compilers will ship
>>>>>>> ?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For me:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For COBOL and Fortran: 12-Jul-2022
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For BASIC: 11-Oct-2022
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For C/C++: 17-May-2022
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> These are all Tuesday, because as we all know, everything
>>>>>>> happens on a Tuesday. :-)
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> John Reagan must be in for another pit stop? New Heart,
>>>>>> Kidneys?
>>>>> 
>>>>> You know Richard, you are a really charming person at times.
>>>>> :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Simon.
>>>>> 
>>>> Look, I know how he feels. If I leave my wallet behind one more
>>>> fucking time :-(
>>>> 
>>>> WRT John's productivity, I've heard the delay is down to him
>>>> asking for appointments for 3rd and 4th opinions on the size of
>>>> host prostate. Strange . . .
>>> Well, that turned dark pretty quick
>>> 
>> 
>> It's Richard, what else did you expect?
>> 
> 
> Scintillating repartee :-)
> 
> COBOL evangelism, Love of protected subsystems (eg RMS, Rdb), Depression 
> and PTSD after years of VMS abuse, dreams of VMS backend resurgence. . .
> 

What precisely, I dare ask, are you dreaming about VMS back ends? :-D