Re: VMS Pascal article

On 1/8/2025 5:59 PM, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:

On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 13:08:29 -0000 (UTC), cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net
(Dan Cross) wrote:

Once upon a time there were a reasonable number of of VMS books
available - including about development.
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I have a list:
    https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/books.html
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But most of them are both not available for sale any longer
and not uptodate (either describe VMS VAX or VMS Alpha).
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Probably not enough market today. How many would buy a book
about VMS Pascal development today? 25? 50? 100?

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That's a good question; I have no idea how large the audience
for such things would be, but I suspect it would be small.

BTB, on Arne's list of VMS books, one, at least, should still be
commercially available:
 Roland Hughes: The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS
Application Developer
 https://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/app_book.html

Yes. That one should still be available.

For years now the question has been surfacing in the OpenVMS community
"Where are the pimply faced kids?" The other situation which seems to
continually occur is a developer of one language suddenly finding
themselves having to modify or maintain an application written in a
language completely foreign to them...
 Indeed, does anybody under sixty, follow comp.os.vms?

I would expect some.
If we say under fifty then I fear that inviting them all
for coffee would not require a large table.
Arne