conur. It was mentioned earlier that runtimes would come up and honestly they are critical to language choice. At Broadcom we’ve been looking to shift some of our core products to leverage Metal C as the goto than HLASM where it makes sense. Really to make the language more familiar to new hires. That said, it’s not enough.
z/OS is the natural runtime for system level code and the interfaces / libraries are in the OS. HLASM is nothing without these interfaces. Its can still be used in CICS (last I checked) using COMMAND LEVEL interfaces so it is runtime flexible. Metal C as you all know has a very limited set of library/runtime support and sits in the netherworld of the OS and the higher level constructs familiar to C developers. As a consequence, the runtime is an inseparable part of this discussion. -- Matt Hogstrom “To achieve great things two things are needed: a plan, and not quite enough time.” - Leonard Bernstein > On Nov 12, 2024, at 08:15, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > There's a similar situation with regard to interpreted versus compiled: the > terms reflect implementation rather than the syntax or semantics, and the > same language could be any of compiled to machine code, compiled to > assembler, compiled to an internal (e.g., byte code. P-code) form and > interpreted, or interpreted line by line on different, or even the same, > platforms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
