[Info-vax] OpenVMS on X86-64, whats next

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-07-24, Greg Tinkler <tinklerg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 July 2022 at 11:39:41 am UTC+10, Richard Maher wrote:
>> On 22/07/2022 12:20 pm, Greg Tinkler wrote: 
>> > <snip> but if you want to play in the 'new' commercial pack then you
>> > need higher level programming. Hence why VSI has I believed VSI has 
>> > rightly focused on C/C++
>> Disbelief!
>
> Disbelief???
>

Yes. There's a major COBOL base on VMS.

> If you want almost any open source app you need c/c++, and also need CRTL to appear as close to Linux as possible.
>

In this case, your comment seemed to be talking about application
programming languages in use on VMS, not the languages that open source
tools to be ported to VMS are written in.

Simon.

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