[Info-vax] COBOL, <gack!> again! Return status.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/14/2023 8:11 PM, bill wrote:
> On 9/14/2023 7:12 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
>> On 14/09/2023 23:32, bill wrote:
>>> I really miss doing COBOL.  Kinda miss Fortran, too, but not
>>> as much.  And then there was Pascal.  A shame we lost all the
>>> good languages.
>>
>> Pascal IS available for x86
> 
> I have Pascal on pretty much every system I still run here at home.
> What I lack is Pascal Programs to work on.  :-)

There are still some custom Pascal application running on VMS.

But Pascal is pretty rare in the open source world.

Anyway a quick google gave one good candidate:

https://github.com/HeidiSQL/HeidiSQL

Easy task : port to Lazarus.

Difficult task : port to VMS Pascal using X for GUI.

Arne