> It's the predictable consequence of requiring end users to use a > different language, including OS interfaces, from that used > internally. IBM's posture that withholding PL/S provided a > competitive advantage should have been vitiated; mooted by > the advent of unbuldling, priced OS software, and OCO. It > flouts the maxim attributed to Linus, "With enough testers all > bugs are shallow." > > Imagine where UNIX would be nowadays if C had been sequestered > for vendor internal use only, and customers left to program in > assembler with second-rate OS interface declarations. > > -- gil
Amen to that, brother Gil. I have been saying for over 30 years that withholding PL/S was a huge blunder by IBM, and that it continues to cost us dearly. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
