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Failed to connect to MySQL: (1203) User howardkn already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connectionsPath: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 15:30:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Fun: Object Pascal on VMS Newsgroups: comp.os.vms References: Content-Language: en-US From: =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=C3=B8j?= In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 33 Message-ID: <66d8b552$0$707$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source NNTP-Posting-Host: b797ed57.news.sunsite.dk X-Trace: 1725478226 news.sunsite.dk 707 arne@vajhoej.dk/68.14.27.188:52744 X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Bytes: 2528 On 9/3/2024 10:48 PM, Dave Froble wrote: > On 9/3/2024 2:02 PM, Simon Clubley wrote: >> BTW, about portability, the Free Pascal people say this on their website: >> >> |Free Pascal is a mature, versatile, open source Pascal compiler. It >> |can target many processor architectures: Intel x86 (16 and 32 bit), >> |AMD64/x86-64, PowerPC, PowerPC64, SPARC, SPARC64, ARM, AArch64, MIPS, >> |Motorola 68k, AVR, and the JVM. Supported operating systems include >> |Windows (16/32/64 bit, CE, and native NT), Linux, Mac OS >> |X/iOS/iPhoneSimulator/Darwin, FreeBSD and other BSD flavors, DOS (16 >> |bit, or 32 bit DPMI), OS/2, AIX, Android, Haiku, Nintendo GBA/DS/Wii, >> |AmigaOS, MorphOS, AROS, Atari TOS, and various embedded platforms. >> |Additionally, support for RISC-V (32/64), Xtensa, and Z80 >> |architectures, and for the LLVM compiler infrastructure is available >> |in the development version. Additionally, the Free Pascal team >> |maintains a transpiler for pascal to Javascript called pas2js. >> >> No VMS however. > > Seems as if thoswe people aren't as "open" as they think they are.  If > the world is mainly WEENDOZE and Unix and derivatives perhaps. They cover like 95% of the server market, 99% of the desktop market and 99% of the mobile device market for development and like 3 times 99% for runtime (z/OS, i and VMS all has JVM available). Not so bad. But anyone finding that some important platform is missing are free to port to that platform. Arne