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From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
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Subject: Re: VMS Pascal article
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2025 19:23:20 -0500
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On 1/8/2025 5:59 PM, Subcommandante XDelta wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2025 13:08:29 -0000 (UTC), cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net
> (Dan Cross) wrote:
>>> Once upon a time there were a reasonable number of of VMS books
>>> available - including about development.
>>>
>>> I have a list:
>>>     https://www.vajhoej.dk/arne/vms/books.html
>>>
>>> But most of them are both not available for sale any longer
>>> and not uptodate (either describe VMS VAX or VMS Alpha).
>>>
>>> Probably not enough market today. How many would buy a book
>>> about VMS Pascal development today? 25? 50? 100?
>>
>> That's a good question; I have no idea how large the audience
>> for such things would be, but I suspect it would be small.

> BTB, on Arne's list of VMS books, one, at least, should still be
> commercially available:
> 
> Roland Hughes: The Minimum You Need to Know to Be an OpenVMS
> Application Developer
> 
> https://www.theminimumyouneedtoknow.com/app_book.html

Yes. That one should still be available.

> For years now the question has been surfacing in the OpenVMS community
> "Where are the pimply faced kids?" The other situation which seems to
> continually occur is a developer of one language suddenly finding
> themselves having to modify or maintain an application written in a
> language completely foreign to them...
> 
> Indeed, does anybody under sixty, follow comp.os.vms?

I would expect some.

If we say under fifty then I fear that inviting them all
for coffee would not require a large table.

Arne