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From: John Reagan <johnrreagan@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: ISO: The Eiffel OO programming language and IDE, on VMS
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:11:45 -0400
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On 3/27/2025 11:10 PM, Dan Cross wrote:
> In article <de6f4fa6d5594b31aed18a7ab508e091dc86a4f3@i2pn2.org>,
> John Reagan  <johnrreagan@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> I actually contacted one of the Rust folks a few years back but haven't
>> kept up the connection.
>>
>> I really like Eiffel.  Actually one of the languages that influenced the
>> Extended Pascal standard was Eiffel.  Of course, you can see how well
>> that crushed in the market.  C++26's contracts finally gets to something
>> that Eiffel did from the beginning.
>>
>> As I mentioned in another post, I do want to provide the LLVM libs for
>> OpenVMS either thru the actual LLVM repo or with something on the side.
>>
>> Having help for Rust (or other languages) once we have the libraries in
>> place, would be great.  I'm all for that.  I just have to convince VSI
>> mgmt to do that.  Anybody want to approach them (Rust or one of their
>> users)?
> 
> Rust isn't a monolith, but I can ask through a back channel if
> anyone from the community may be interested in helping with a
> VMS port.  I don't know if the requisite mixture of interest,
> time, and VMS expertise and access is readily available, though.
> 
> 	- Dan C.
> 
I'll ask around at next month's LLVM Euro conference in Berlin