Re: Fun: Object Pascal on VMS

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

On 9/3/2024 8:35 PM, bill wrote:

On 9/3/2024 8:34 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:

On 9/3/2024 8:22 PM, bill 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.

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Why?  Wasn't the VMS Pascal compiler ported?  I would think it
would be a lot easier porting something written in Pascal
compared to something written in C.

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If FPC source is ISO Pascal then VMS Pascal may be able to build it
with maybe a few tweaks.
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But if the FPC source is Object Pascal then VMS Pascal is of no use.
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A quick glance at https://github.com/fpc/FPCSource/screams Object Pascal.
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So, that OO shit comes out to bite people on the ass yet again.  :-)
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Some like to forget, at the bottom, it is just ones and zeros ...
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You can write entire applications and operating systems in assembly
language if you wish. Nobody sane does that these days because
higher-level procedural languages have abstractions that make the
writing of these programs/environments much easier and far more reliable.

Likewise, OO languages, when used properly, are an even higher level
of abstraction over procedural languages.

Simon.

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