On Nov 4, 2007, at 8:19 PM, Clark Morris wrote:
On 1 Nov 2007 17:43:12 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Ed Gould wrote:
On Nov 1, 2007, at 6:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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Don't blame PC weenies for LE. It was most probably in response to
the Guide/SHARE (or SHARE/Guide) Language Futures Task Force which was
co-chaired by John Ehrman and someone from Guide. I was a member of
that task force with most participants more knowledgeable than me and
am suffering a senior moment because I don't remember the names of
most of the participants. This task force met in the early 1980's..
Clark:\
Perhaps I wasn't clear I will attempt to clarify it . The LE (in
concept) was probably good. It was the coders (read developers) that
I blame the LE problems on. I also don't believe they had enough of a
background to understand IBM's (excellent btw) idea on compatibility.
I don't think that anyone would have complained about bugs (yes there
were more than a reasonable amount IMO but probably in a reasonable
range but nothing as bad as VSAMs' PTF tapes). IMO they should have
had someone from DFP be the chief architect then they wouldn't have
had 12(?) releases in a few years. If that wasn't bad enough you
really needed a lawyer to read the (Fine) manual on compatibility.
Ed
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