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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Fun: Object Pascal on VMS
Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2024 12:14:33 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-09-02, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Sep 2024 11:35:16 -0400, Arne Vajh�j wrote:
>
>> On PC:
>> 
>> C:\Work\VMS\objectpascal>ppcjvm demo.pas
>> ...
>> 
>> On VMS:
>> 
>> $ java -cp demo.jar:fpcjvm.jar "demo"
>> F1=0,F2=
>> F1=123,F2=ABC
>
> VMS can no longer self-host its own development stack any more.
>

That has been true for a long time - you can't even get Ada for
VMS these days. Even though Free Pascal is very portable, it does
not surprise me one little bit that it will not run native on VMS.

Simon.

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