It was the same for me. At the time I was in charge of a large assembler development group. I was not about to spend the time to train a bunch of developers and write code in PL/X if there was any possibility of it not becoming mainstream. Then it was withdrawn about a year later. Sticking with native assembler is one decision I never regretted.
Chuck Arney Arney Computer Systems zosdebug.com > On Feb 24, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2/24/2014 2:53 PM, Ray Mullins wrote: >> 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 thunderous crickets, and after a while it was withdrawn.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. > > The fear of product withdrawal was part of the reason for the crickets. > At least it was here. Try to calculate the risk of re-writing millions > of lines of HLASM code in PL/X only to have the compiler stabilized, or > worse yet, withdrawn. Scary stuff... > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ >
