[Info-vax] Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 22:36:02 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

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

Back in the day, there was DECUS -- an active community of users creating/
adapting and collecting software for DEC systems, for each other to use.

Where is that now?

> 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

Dotnet never seemed more than a Microsoft corporate vanity project (a 
reaction to Sun’s lawsuit over Java), rather than an actual important 
technology. Microsoft themselves have never used it for anything strategic 
(e.g. Office); their one attempt to incorporate it deeply into the OS 
(Vista) ended in failure.