Re: Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

On 9/3/2024 2:02 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:

On 2024-09-03, Dave Froble <davef@tsoft-inc.com> wrote:

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

 No. There are things that are expected to be available in a modern ecosystem
or for which it would be highly desirable for them to be available.
 Environments that do not support those things rapidly acquire legacy status
and then unusable in a modern environment status.

Yes.

BTW, the above is not a Free Pascal comment, but more of a general observation.

FPC is not a "must have" for that many.

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.

 So how capable are the OO features in VMS Pascal these days ?

Non-existing.

BTW, about portability, the Free Pascal people say this on their website:
 |Free Pascal is a mature, versatile, open source Pascal compiler. It
|can target many processor architectures: Intel x86 (16 and 32 bit),
|AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, SPARC64, ARM, AArch64, MIPS,
|Motorola 68k, AVR, and the JVM. Supported operating systems include
|Windows (16/32/64 bit, CE, and native NT), Linux, Mac OS
|X/iOS/iPhoneSimulator/Darwin, FreeBSD and other BSD flavors, DOS (16
|bit, or 32 bit DPMI), OS/2, AIX, Android, Haiku, Nintendo GBA/DS/Wii,
|AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, Atari TOS, and various embedded platforms.
|Additionally, support for RISC-V (32/64), Xtensa, and Z80
|architectures, and for the LLVM compiler infrastructure is available
|in the development version. Additionally, the Free Pascal team
|maintains a transpiler for pascal to Javascript called pas2js.
 No VMS however.

My point was just that the JVM target actually include VMS.
Arne