On 2014-02-22 12:09, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On 2014-02-22, at 12:54, Peter Relson wrote:
Changing this by default or en masse is unlikely to happen. Changing
individual macros (in a forthcoming release) is much more feasible, and if
you have favorite "candidates", let me know and I will pass that along to
the developer for their consideration.
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. It has been decades since
IBM had a competitive advantage to defend by keeping PL/x
intramural.
It was a product at one time! It was made available back in (I think) the
late 1990s, although it was targeted at ISVs. But the response from ISVs was
thunderous crickets, and after a while it was withdrawn. IIRC there were a
couple of ISVs who took it on.
--
M. Ray Mullins
Roseville, CA, USA
http://www.catherdersoftware.com/
German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far
calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi
French is essentially German with messed-up pronunciation and spelling.
--Robert B Wilson
English is essentially French converted to 7-bit ASCII. ---Christophe Pierret
[for Alain LaBonté]
