Yes! Good grief. C happened utterly independently of mainframes. Mainframes after all had PL/I ... and C happened anyway. Intel had a language called PL/M -- I used it, basically an extreme PL/I subset -- and C happened anyway.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:07 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: looking for 'how to' developing Rexx host command I never understood why IBM kept PL/S such a deep dark secret. Regardless, PL/S is intimately tied to the 370 and subsequent architectures, and C is not. C also came out much earlier than PL/S, starting in about 1970. On Tue, Mar 22, 2022 at 9:59 AM Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:32:35 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > > >+1 for MetalC. Puts it all under your control. > > > I don't know the chronology, but I wonder whether if IBM had > made PL/S a product early enough, C would never have happened. > > >+10 for SAMPLIB members in MetalC, not that any such are very likely to > be provided in what's left of our working lifetimes. > > > An alternative an executable example in a User's Guide. I learned the > HLASM I/O exits from an example I copied/pasted from a manual. > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Jay Maynard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
