VAX/VMS Pascal, Modula-3, Oberon, what could have been....

[Jon Elson]

On 11/02/2016 06:38 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
> I recently discovered the very excellent website 
> http://pascal.hansotten.com devoted to all things Wirth.
>
I did a lot of work in Pascal on VAX and Windows systems in 
the '80s or so, and have some legacy programs that were in 
use until recently.  I was VERY pleased to discover FPC 
(Free Pascal Compiler) which implements the Borland and DEC 
extensions very well.  A big program that was one of the 
last Pascal programs I wrote in Borland turbo Pascal for 
Windows converted Gerber photoplotting language to a raster 
file.  I was able to get it recompiled on Linux using FPC in 
just a few days, and it runs fine (better in fact than the 
original).
And, of course, it is again maintainable!

Jon