Re: Modernization?

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Andelin skrev:
> From: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
>   
> > If PASE could also run PowerPC Linux ...
> >     
>
> You've piqued my interest. Do you have a particular application in mind to port to PASE?  PHP is already a big hit.
>   
Actually it is a bit the other way around - I'd much rather have I do 
_NOT_ have to port applications to PASE.  The support of AIX in the Open 
Source world is basically non existant, and as PASE runs AIX binaries it 
goes for that too.  I do not know why this is so, but my best bet is 
that IBM does not provide any facilities to Open Source folks without 
payment.

I was intrigued by the talk by Simon Peyton Jones at JAOO 2009 about the 
work with Haskell and how to _transparently_ implement MapReduce which 
is a HARD problem.   Haskell is a functional language which is rather 
hard to describe to people unfamliar to the concept, but it can be 
somewhat compared to the difference in mindset between coding an 
application in RPG/Cobol/Java/etc and SQL.

But basically I have concluded that the ability to run AIX binaries is 
nice, but close to useless unless you have an AIX machine nearby to 
compile programs on.  It would be much better if we could run Linux 
binaries, and if perhaps IBM would officially sanction e.g. the Debian 
or Redhat package manager so we would be able to type "apt-get install 
gcc" and get a fully functional compiler tool chain _inside_ the I.

Hope this makes things clearer :D