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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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> If FPC source is ISO Pascal then VMS Pascal may be able to build it
>> with maybe a few tweaks.
>>
>> But if the FPC source is Object Pascal then VMS Pascal is of no use.
>>
>> A quick glance at https://github.com/fpc/FPCSource/ screams Object Pascal.
> 
> So, that OO shit comes out to bite people on the ass yet again.  :-)

The other side of the coin says "the lack up of OO support
comes out to bite people on the ass yet again".

:-)

Arne