On 12 Nov 2006 16:32:19 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/11/2006 > at 09:26 AM, Clark Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>In the case of IBM, PL/X was supposed to make Assembler obsolete for >>IBM coding or was it. > >PL/X includes GENERATE. > >>Customers don't need to use assembler or shouldn't. > >Then IBM needs to do a lot of work adding HLL interfaces and improving >code optimization. > I was being semi-sarcastic when I said customers don't need to use assembler but if IBM would ever implement the new data types in the 2002 COBOL standard (SHARE requirements on record), it would eliminate the need for weird code in COBOL to deal with bit switches and 1 byte binary fields. Adding the IEEE floating point would eliminate the ridiculous conversion between floating point types when interfacing with JAVA. There also is a SHARE requirement that IBM provide a way to generate COBOL, PL1 and other language mappings for all data areas as described in IBM macro libraries. I don't care if they provide PL/X and generate from that or generate from assembler.
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