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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: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 18:07:47 -0000 (UTC)
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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 Vajh�j 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.  :-)
>>
>
> Some like to forget, at the bottom, it is just ones and zeros ...
>

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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Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
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