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Subject: Re: Fun: Object Pascal on VMS
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 19:35:19 -0400
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On 9/6/2024 7:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2024 22:36:02 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> And to be clear then this work would have to be driven by fondness for
>> Pascal. There is no business case.
> 
> Back in the day, there was DECUS -- an active community of users creating/
> adapting and collecting software for DEC systems, for each other to use.
> 
> Where is that now?

The artifacts from back then still exist.

https://www.digiater.nl/openvms/decus/

The number of VMS users has decreased since then.

The numbers of VMS users actively contributing has
decreased even more since then.

Arne