[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/14/22 17:07, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-11-14 at 19:06 +0000, Simon Clubley wrote:
>>> If you look on https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/compiler_support,
>>> this will tell you what each compiler actually supports for C++20
>>> compliance.
>>>
>>> Stick with GCC if you want to play with a lot of C++20 features.
>>
>> And now you need a C++17 compiler to be able to build LLVM itself...
> 
> Quite. I remember having to bootstrap an obsolete compiler to a more up
> to date compiler by building using a few versions in between that old
> compiler and the more modern compiler. It's rather neat, if a bit time
> consuming. :-D

That's how GNAT worked.  And may be the future of Ada
on some systems again.

bill