On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:15:45 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >Sigh. By the same token asking for trilingual macros is an >implementation technique. What is the business problem you want IBM to >address? Perhaps shipping mappings for all three languages, with >identical names and such? Then maybe IBM can decide if a trilingual >approach is the best fit. > Possibly. With more consideration, perhaps, maintain the source in an abstract language and use different filters to generate copybooks in each of the target languages. Of course customers would like to have the original source in order to be able to accommodate languages unimagined by IBM. IBM might consider this to compromise proprietary source code.
What business problem is IBM addressing with Metal C, anyway? The solution to such a problem would be enhanced by easier access to system facilities. The costs and risks of parallel source maintenance are obvious. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
