On Sat, 26 Mar 2022 00:58:53 +0000, CM Poncelet wrote: >AFAIK The reason PL/I was not 'more popular' was its high license fee. > Circa 1980, my then employer approached IBM seeking permission to redistribute the PL/I RTL to support a product we were designing. We were told that each of our customers would have to have a purchase agreement with IBM. We went with a different language. Admittedly, we were a competitor.
Does LE make a difference nowadays? >Meanwhile, I've known people use even COBOL to write/maintain system code. > >As for me, I wrote all system code in assembler - bar adhoc stuff, as in > Yet II was startled when our sysprog mentioned offhand that he was writing an ad-hoc assembler program to generate a little report. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
