Related: how does LE handle strings with embedded troublesome bytes such as x'00'? And is it different between PL/I and C?
I am reading the PL/I Programming Guide, but it takes but I'm hoping there is an easy off-the-cuff answer. Most of my PL/I experience was before LE, you see. Roos On Sat., Mar. 26, 2022, 22:25 Charles Mills, <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > > 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:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2022 2:28 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > 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 lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
