Re: PL/I for AS/400

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello Jon,

You wrote:
>Not "digress" Simon - more like "dream".  I'm frankly amazed that they are
>even selling it as a PRPQ.  Last I heard there were problems with it on the
>V4R2+ releases that were going to be very expensive to fix and so they were
>not doing it.  Something to do with PL/I using some under-the-hood support
>that nothing else used (related to run time error handling I think but that
>may be BASIC).  It may continue to work in V5 but I'm darned if I'd want to
>trust it considering they offer next to zero support.

But I'm allowed to dream aren't I?  I have a dream ... 

I am sure it will eventually be pulled.  Notwithstanding the comment (from 
Walden?) about Synon using it.  I doubt CA have sufficient clout to force 
IBM to keep PL/1 alive for one product when a fairly simple conversion 
process could have it using C.  Customer's shouldn't care what language the 
tool is written in as long as it continues to function so they won't have 
any clout.  (Hmm ... do customers have clout with IBM anyway?)

I only use PL/1 for some tools I have that I can't be bothered rewriting 
until I'm forced to so do.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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