[Info-vax] Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/2/2024 7:51 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro 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.

There are lots of compilers and interpreters available on VMS.

There are also a bunch that are not available on VMS. That
bunch include FPC.

If someone wanted FPC to run on VMS, then they could
port it. It is open source.

FPC has really nothing to do with VMS, but compiling to
Java byte code is a very broad targeting cross compiler.
Which I took advantage of.

Arne