On Thu, 6 Jan 2022 12:57:34 -0400, René Jansen wrote: >JCL ... Fred Brooks (“the worst language ever, and it happened under my >watch”) . > ... >And indeed, I think witholding PL/X from customers was a very odd move, guided >by who-knows-which motives; which did not do PL/I a lot of good, unfortunately. > I conjecture fear of competition from RCA(?) Others(?) I don't know the chronology. I have long conjectured that if IBM had opened PL/X early enough, C would have been unnecessary.
A colleague told me that SuperC was coded in PL/X and runs alike on MVS and OS/2. (Was an NDA breached or could that have been inferred from eyecatchers in the modules?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
