Re: ILE vs CLI. was V5R3

[Hans Boldt <boldt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Booth Martin wrote:
> This isn't clear to me.  CLI now does what ILE has been doing for 5+ years? 
> What does CLI do that ILE doesn't already do?  Is CLI open source, available
> for all platforms? 

It isn't entirely clear to me either, but CLI basically does what 
the Java runtime environment has done for about the past 10 years. 
CLI is basically MS's re-invention of the JRE. I don't believe MS's 
implementation of CLI is open source, but the definition has been 
submitted to ECMA for standardization. One open-source project, Mono 
(http://www.go-mono.com/), includes a CLI virtual machine that runs 
on a number of platforms.

ILE on the other hand, is basically a beefed up system for static 
binding of modules, something which has existed in other operating 
systems for decades. I first encountered the concept of static 
binding in 1977 programming in Pascal and assembler on the RT-11 O/S 
running on a meager PDP-11/03. But the concept goes back much further.

So basically, you're comparing apples and oranges when you try to 
compare CLI and ILE.

Cheers! Hans