[Info-vax] Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

[Dave Froble]

On 9/3/2024 8:14 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2024-09-02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:35:16 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>
>>> On PC:
>>>
>>> C:\Work\VMS\objectpascal>ppcjvm demo.pas
>>> ...
>>>
>>> On VMS:
>>>
>>> $ java -cp demo.jar:fpcjvm.jar "demo"
>>> F1=0,F2=
>>> F1=123,F2=ABC
>>
>> VMS can no longer self-host its own development stack any more.
>>
>
> That has been true for a long time - you can't even get Ada for
> VMS these days. Even though Free Pascal is very portable, it does
> not surprise me one little bit that it will not run native on VMS.
>
> Simon.
>

Seems there is some opinions that everything should run on everything.  That 
just isn't so, and why should it be?

As for VMS and Pascal, there is a very decent implementation of that language on 
VMS, so what's the problem when a product aimed at a different environment will 
not run on every environment.

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