And if the ISV were to rewrite, what would the cost be in man hours and the actual PL/X product to install/run/license
Regards, Scott Ford From: Ed Jaffe Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2014 12:16 PM To: IBM Mainframe Assembler List On 2/22/2014 12:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Do you appreciate how much happier the customer base would be if > the PL/x compiler were to be made a product? Customer and IBM > developers could be reading from the same page, and IBM could be > spared the dual maintenance of source. Maintenance of bilingual macros will persist until long after we are all dead. Even if PL/X became public domain tomorrow, it's unlikely that many (if any?) ISVs could ever justify wholesale rewrite of tens of millions of lines of working HLASM product code into a language their developers don't even really know. New modules? Possibly. But, not existing ones. If such rewrite were viable, one could argue that all existing ISV product code would have already been rewritten in METAL or Dignus C, which it has not. New modules? Possibly. But, not existing ones. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
