RE: ILE vs CLI. was V5R3

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jon Paris


| Certainly
| there were many other issues addressed within the design, but the primary
| goal was to have C and other call intensive languages perform
| well.  Period,
| end of story.
|
| It was never intended to provide the same kind of hardware independent
| capabilities that CLI does.

This is my understanding, also.

| ILE would be the vehicle by which a good performing implementation of CLI
| could be delivered - just as is provides some underpinnings for Java.

Interesting.


| IBM to date have placed their bets on Java - Now we need to get to
| work to get them to implement CLI.

No doubt...  But I would add that IBM hasn't placed ALL their egg's in Sun's
basket, as that would make no sense.

Nor, imo, would investing billions of dollars in Power/SLIC if all it needed
to do was run Java..

(../especially/ given the customer-base that exists in i and z...)