[Info-vax] Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 9/3/2024 6:51 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 9/3/2024 6:27 PM, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>> Has anyone actually tried porting FPC to VMS?  It looks at first glance
>> like a lot of it is written in Pascal, so I assume it would need to be
>> cross-compiled initially.
> 
> Given how many OS'es it has already been ported to, then it should
> be very doable.
> 
> But as usual it requires somebody to do the work.

And to be clear then this work would have to be driven by
fondness for Pascal. There is no business case.

If VSI or someone else want to port something on a
commercial basis then I think the priority list should
be:

1) .NET with C#, F# and VB.NET
2) Graal with OpenJDK AOT compile, GraalJS, GraalPy, TruffleRuby, FastR 
and GraalWasm
3) V8 and node.js
4) Go
5) R

Rust, Zig, Swift, Julia and FPC does not make the cut. IMHO.

Arne