RE: Laymans explaination for single level store?

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>in order to allow programs
>to run on different hardware without re-compiling. 

I've always had a problem with this statement. Remove observability and
how far do you get on hardware changes? Aren't you really recompiling
the program under the covers. Granted, observability doesn't store the
actual RPG source code (or cobol, or MI, or...) but it does store the
program template from which the "real" program is created, or recreated,
no? The template is in effect the real source code, and the compilers
are simply translates from RPG, cobol, mi, etc. to the template.

Now, I do give Frank and the others great respect for knowing enough to
store the program template, and not rely on the "original" source code.
But is it really fair to say you're not recompiling the code? 

-Walden

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