> Does LE make a difference nowadays? Yes. LE is the runtime for all recent releases of the "popular" languages (someone will jump on me on that!) with the exception of Rexx. Rexx will run interpreted, but if you want the benefits of compiled Rexx, the target machine needs a paid-for runtime library.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2022 2:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PL/I question 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
